To: <amps@contesting.com>
>> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:28:00 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: km1h@juno.com
>> Subject: [AMPS] Re: Parasitics
>> To: amps@contesting.com
>
>> I have not heard an answer yet Tom...perhaps you are at Dayton but "we"
>> patiently await your reply .
>
>Just got home to the unfriendly reflector.
Translation: "unfriendly" =s questioning of statements that don't quite
wash.
>Hopefully I won't miss
>anything by deleting MOST of the 198 messages from this and one other
>reflector without reading them!
>
What, me worry?
>> >In an amplifier that is properly tuned and not underloaded and into a
>> >known good antenna with no intermittents, no relay problems or any
>> >other excuse....why would it suddenly arc the bandswitch while being
>> >operated? Assume the original design parasitic suppressor is in place
>> >and known good.
>
>No one can answer a question like that with a single answer, unless
>that person has a preconceived notion that every failure is
>rooted in only one cause.
My guess is that he realizes it's a question designed to test his theory
that bandswitch arcs are due to 'cheap coax', 'operator error', and 'bad
antennas', -- period.
>
>With that in mind, let me ask this:
>
>Is this an amplifier that you personally watched first hand in a test
>setup, or are the parameters above gleaned from a second source?
>
>73, Tom W8JI
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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