I ran into a young guy at the Pomona swap meet last month
who was looking for amplifier parts. He bought some
Motorola sytle power combiners from one guy who had a
bunch of healthy looking amplifier parts (big vacuum caps,
3CX3000 socket, etc). From the gist of the conversation
I am pretty sure this guy was a freebander or so-called "AMer".
Sounded like he wanted to build a healthy mobile amp with
the parts he picked up. Later I ran into him at another booth
where he was looking at an HP141T spectrum analyzer.
He said he wanted to look at harmonics, but seemed a little
nervous when I started asking about what frequencies he
was interested in. I went on to explain about the various
plug-ins available for the HP141T and there availability
on places like Ebay (the unit he was looking at came with
the 18 GHz plug-in).
My guess is that this fellow would make a good ham. He
didn't seem shy at all about jumping into what looked to be
a fairly challenging construction project (he has likely built
more amps than I have). If I see him again maybe I will try
steering him in our direction.
73 de Mike, W4EF..................................
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Strohm" <jstrohm@texas.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] CBers
> Ku4uk@aol.com sez --
>
> >When hams build amps for CB. They are hurting all hams. When the guy down
the
> >road thinks your the one tearing up his tv. It's hard to make him think
it's
> >anyone but you.
>
>
> Let's adjust what you're saying.
>
> I prefer THIS wording:
>
> "When hams build amps for people who misuse the amps, they are hurting all
> hams."
>
>
> We've had enough cases locally of bad hams hurting all of us.
>
> This has exactly the same bad effect on hams that bad CBers have,
except --
> CBers running power are lawbreakers. Hams are licensed to operate their
> stations legally at all times.
>
> An unlawfully noisy amp is just as illegal for a licensed ham operating
> in-band as for an outlaw CB freebander running 50 kW. Let's not tar
> ourselves with the CBer's brush.
>
> Build good stuff and turn CBers into hams. That's not so hard to do.
> Shoot, I even did it for myself.
>
> Jim N6OTQ
>
>
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