Amps
[Top] [All Lists]

[AMPS] Alpha

To: <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: [AMPS] Alpha
From: sm5ki@algonet.se (Hans Goldschmidt)
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 22:46:29 +0000
1-01-01 17.14, skrev measures på 2@vc.net följande:

> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 12/29/00 12:37:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> w8ji@contesting.com writes:
>> 
>>> Hi Bob,
>>> 
>>>> I don't intend to start a war, however based on my observations over the
>>>> last 2 decades (at least) in going to rallies (what Americans call
>>>> hamfests) and my observations of some of the questions which crop up on
>>>> the ham radio newsgroups the average ham is too lazy to do anything.
>>> 
>>> I don't intend to start a fight, but from my viewpoint the average
>>> ham is too quick to condemn everyone else.
>>> 
>>>> Some of the comments which appear on Rich Measures web site about
>>>> commercial equipment are well justified, rigs with so called fast break
>> in
>>>> using standard power relays to switch linears, no soft start for power
>>>> supplies, short circuiting HT lines as a safety measure, band switches
>>>> that arc because there is inherent in the design of an amplifier a cause
>>>> for VHF parasitic.
>>> 
>>> I hate to tell you this, but if you think a VHF parasitic can arc a
>>> bandswitch you need a course in electronics 101.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps you should look at the voltages and currents required to
>>> do that, instead of being critical of other for not knowing what is
>>> going on.
>>> 
>>> Obviously you haven't researched the problem.
>>> 
>>> 73, Tom W8JI
>>> w8ji@contesting.com
>>> ========================================================
>> 
>> Tom,
>> 
>> Since you are not the average ham, what, in your humble opinion, is the
>> cause of bandswitch arcing ????????
>> 
>> You seem to have eliminated all the things that DON'T cause arcs, what is
>> the real cause?
>> 
> ? according to Mr. Rauch, he has not completed Electronics 101.
>> 
> cheers, Dave.
> 
> -  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
> end
> 
> 
> --
> FAQ on WWW:               http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/amps
> Submissions:              amps@contesting.com
> Administrative requests:  amps-REQUEST@contesting.com
> Problems:                 owner-amps@contesting.com
> 
> 
The reason for switch arcing is that too many beers made the operator turn
the bandswitch during tune-up.

Prosit de Hans SM5KI


--
FAQ on WWW:               http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/amps
Submissions:              amps@contesting.com
Administrative requests:  amps-REQUEST@contesting.com
Problems:                 owner-amps@contesting.com


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>