Fred Hammond built amps before Viewstar. I don’t remember
the model but, George, VE3FXT, took one to Fiji in 1983. It
was a single tube 3-500Z. It sure ran hot; we had the case
off, not the cover, to help with the cooling. Am sure you
could easy fry an egg on the thing.
Doug/VA5DX
Subject: Re: [Amps] Ameritron Amps
Yes Ed, Fred Hammond was involved in the building of
those Viewstar
amplifiers as Fred supplied the dies to make the tuning
capacitors. I
recall when Paul Hivniak (not sure on spelling of his name)
had a big
sale on all the models especially the PT-1000 and the
PT-2500 so that
must have been at about the time that they shut down the
canadian
operations. The PT-3000A was in same cabinet as the PT-2500
amp. I'm
not aware of the details as to whether Viewstar actually
went under but
I do know that B&W had bought the rights to them but it
appears that not
very many were sold then.
Fern VE7GZ
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