Practical design of a vacuum-tube RF amplifier

A most excellent walk-through of the design process behind a ‘valve’ amplifier:

This is 3rd on my list of tube projects. Stay “tuned”.

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Sweet!

Although I design cell tower PAs for a living, I’ve never learned much about tube amps of any sort.

Hahaha.

DPD is a finicky beast. Getting my PA to behave exactly how the DPD guys want is 3/4 of my job.

However I know fairly little. All I can recommend you do is brush up on your DSP and start reading some white papers/journal articles.