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>On Wed, 20 May 1998 07:13:04 +0000 Tom Rauch
><10eesfams2mi@mass1-pop.pmm.mci.net> writes:
To: <amps@contesting.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:43:06 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>>> >Is this an amplifier that you personally watched first hand in a test
>>> >setup, or are the parameters above gleaned from a second source?
>>
>>Unless you have details of the second hand report and are absolutely
>>sure of the source, we have to dismiss it.
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>
>Is that "we" like in the royal version. Dont include me then since I do
>not dismiss others opinions so easily.
>
>
>>
>>> Both. But the amps I witnessed were not SB-220's or had 3-500Z's.
>>> I would still prefer to stick to the SB-220 and related clones since they
>>> are so popular and the majority of readers can relate to them. Roughly 4
>>> out of 10 SB-220's that I buy have some sort of switch damage...which is
>>> why they are for sale...cheap. In almost every case, the owners say the
>>> amp was tuned and operating perfectly fine and the switch arced for no
>>> obvious reason.
>>
Sounds familiar, Carl.
>>Carl, consider the large conclusion you are leaping to here in
>>accepting the guy's personal "opinion". A Ham you have never worked
>>next to, and probably never even met before, operating a station you
>>have never seen, and with equipment you probably aren't even aware
>>of, tells you "I always tuned my amp correctly".
Not Invented Here syndrome.
>>
>>It would be more productive to discuss facts, rather than opinions of
>>unknown individuals who are judging their own equipment and skills
>>as "nothing wrong with anything else".
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>
>I asked a very simple question Tom that you seem unable to answer so
>instead surround it with noise.
>.........
Seems to me like ye olde smokescreen.
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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