Jon, I would slow down for a second and I would try and find someone who
has a similar vintage 87a. I would then ask that person how his/her amp is
working. Ask about any problems encountered, ask if they sent it back for
the "so called" major updates. I would presume that anyone and everyone
who has/had owned one of these would know for sure the specific problems
these amps have (if any). There is a new regime over there at Alpha these
days you know. For $3000.00 plus whatever you paid for it originally you can
buy yourself a pretty good amp of another brand. I am very suspicious of
that whole phone call! Lou
In a message dated 7/9/2012 7:39:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
wworldwidedx@comcast.net writes:
Let me get your thoughts on something. I called Alpha to get the sequence
code to unlock the 10 meter band and the gentleman got on the line and he
knew about anAlpha 87A that I got the other day by an earlier conversation
and that it was basically a New Old Stock amplifier and he told me and
really urged me to send the amp to them (Alpha) and let them do all the
upgrades. Now here is were it gets interesting, I asked him,
"Well okay, if I do decide to send the amp...can you give me a ball park
cost on what it would be to update?" He said, "No we can't, you just have
to get it here and let Brad (87A expert) go through it. I insisted that I
may consider sending it but I would really like to have a figure to budget
the cost. While on the phone he talked to the "expert" in the back (I could
hear them in the background talking) and he came back on the phone with a
$3,000.00 dollar figure. I was shocked! I then asked? "Can you send me an
itemized list of upgrades you'll be performing on the New Old Stock Alpha
87A?" Answer: "No, if your amp really is that age (1991) and has never
been back to us and according to our files we have no records of it ever
coming back then it will need a lot of upgrades to get it to the Alpha
recommended standards". Then the gentleman suggest that I may just consider
selling the 87A and get my money back and if I were really considering
spending
$3,000.00 for up
grades,
then I needed to consider buying the new Alpha 9500, etc.
According to this gentleman at Alpha, without the upgrades this New Old
Stock, never used Alpha 87A is a time bomb waiting to give me major problems.
I missing something here?
Jon
W4LWY
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