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Subject: [AMPS] Switches
From: 2@vc.net (measures)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:57:02 -0700
>In a message dated 10/13/00 12:28:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>w8ik@subich.com writes:
>
>> 
>>  
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: owner-amps@contesting.com [mailto:owner-amps@contesting.com]On
>>  > Behalf Of measures
>>  > 
>>  > Assuming that hams are not capable of adjusting  the load-C for a 
>>  > specified  screen-current, is a load of Bandini.  Is Mr. Rauch on some 
>>  > kind of superiority trip or what?
>>   
>>  Measures' "superior attitude" strikes again.  For generations amateurs 
>>  have been taught to tune g-g amplifiers for maximum output. Tune for 
>>  plate/screen dip, load for specified screen current is foreign ... just 
>>  listen to the garbage from some of the mistuned tetrode amplifiers 
>>  that have been showing up over the last couple years.  
>>  
>>  > Multronics make a line of suitable insuuctors.  Jennings makes a line of 
>>  > suitable capacitors.  With  9-bands, general coverage makes more sense 
>>  > than a bandswitch.    
>>  
>>  Why do you insist on this kind of stuff?  The designer already said 
>>  that a vacuum capacitor was not acceptable as is a rotary inductor, 
>>  no doubt.  There is a significant cost impact (not including the 
>>  need for a bandswitch on the input anyway) that would make such a 
>>  product commercially unviable. 
>>  
>>  Not everyone shares your design priorities (amplifiers with > $4.5K 
>>  in parts).  If you don't have anything positive to contribute keep 
>>  your hands off the keyboard. 
>>  
>
>              I guess I was unaware that the purpose of this reflector was 
>to 
>help Tom design amplifiers for Ameritron in order to make a living.
>
>             Gee, I didn't realize that Tom needed help from hearing him 
>talk 
>about all of his expertise and how no one else knows much of anythng
>
>             Maybe I have under a misimpression, but I thought this was a 
>list dedicated to the free discussion of amplifier technology.  
>
AMPS is apparently the #1 amplifier discussion group.  This is bound to 
attract those who require a really big blower.  AMPS is the abode of the 
original self-recognized amplifier ''expert''.  (QST, p71, Sept., 1994)

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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