This MUST be true... FOX network carried it...!
...Larry - W1GOR
----- Original Message -----
From: "k7fm" <k7fm@teleport.com>
To: "R.Measures" <r@somis.org>; "W5IOK" <w5iok@charter.net>
Cc: <amps@contesting.com>; "Bob Maser" <bmaser@tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Ameritron AL-811H-- Again
> "In my survey of Alpha 87 and 88 owners, c. 40% had needed to return
> theirs
> to the factory hospital"
>
> Note - attribution marks left out on purpose. Quotation marks used to
> indicate I was quoting someone else. Hope that is not too confusing.
>
> Was this a limited survey? Were you waiting at the front porch of the
> hospital, or in the emergency room?
>
> The Alpha 88 was apparently one of those amplifiers that was so bad that
> Alpha Power has removed all information on it from their website and
> terminated all of the former owners and their friends that knew anything
> about it. The FBI was investigating it, but those assigned to the
> operation, under the code name of Operation Parasite simply never
> returned.
>
> Recent documents found at Eimac suggest that a number of the Alpha 88
> amplifiers were operated about a month ago on a dike near New Orleans.
> When
> they were turned on, the parasitic currents caused massive swirling of
> parasitics, which engulfed the region. Investigation of the dike, under
> the
> location of where the Alpha 88s were operated, reveal shattered filaments
> of
> the rebar used. It has been suggested that if the rebar had been
> constructed of nichrome, the massive flow might have been prevented. Both
> republicans and democrats alike have asked for an independent
> investigation.
>
> Colin K7FM
>
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