suppressor grid

British

noun

an electrode placed between the screen grid and anode of a valve. Its negative potential, relative to both screen and anode, prevents secondary electrons from the anode reaching the screen

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In 1935 George and his father Costas built a one-valve transmitter using a type 59 pentode with suppressor grid modulation, and succeeded in contacting most of the world with this QRP rig.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

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