Bands dead today ???
Don W4DNR
Quoting Charles Harpole <k4vud@hotmail.com>:
>
> I again am puzzled about how we hams want to baby and pamper our
> things, our radios. They are lots more rugged than we think, I
> guess, and it would be better, I think, to just store the thing,
> whatever, and forget it. You likely should change out the caps
> later, anyway, and if the tube goes bad by sitting, I just say I
> doubt it.
> We think we are buying stuff new when it comes in the factory sealed
> box. We forget that many items, like my IC7800 was manufactured
> four or five years before I got it brand new. The items we buy as
> new have been made (with parts of unknown age), sat in factory
> storage, shipped in blazing hot condx, sat in retailers storage in
> freezing condx (up North), and then mailed to us "as new" where they
> are handled by many large monkeys who practice jump shots with them,
> or just drop them. THEN, we open the box thinking our precious
> radio just popped out of the assembly line and came to our hands on
> the wings of angels.
> My IC-7800 blew its finals all by itself, as about 30% of them are
> doing, and in warranty shipping it in the original two boxes, a UPS
> monkey dropped it and bent up the rear BNC sockets. ICOM Bellevue
> fixed the sockets for about $350 and fixed the rest on warranty,
> gave me a new set of boxes, and tomorrow I will open it to enjoy
> again, I hope. My point is that this radio has undergone extensive
> bad handling, hot and cold condx, STORED FOR YEARS, and so on and
> when I get it on the table, will look just like new and act same
> too, I hope.
>
> Our precious stuff gets fully "tested" before we see it. It does
> not need babying, coddling, run at reduced power to make the final
> tubes run longer, or any of the other rather loonie things I hear
> people doing.... using more care on the radio than their children.
> Wake up, a radio is just a thing. 73
>
> Charles Harpole
> k4vud@hotmail.com
>
>
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