Art,
>Perhaps this is how we can do some public good. If we could provide a
>"conversion" to allow the current crop of "multi-pill" amplifiers to be used
>on the amateur bands without generating huge amounts of feculence we would
>truly be contributing. It would take existing semi-automatic garbage
>generators and turn them into somewhat useful devices.
The sight of some of these 'linears' (sic) and you'd soon realise one
would have to go back to the drawing board!
One line of amp's I saw in Detroit, and where I chatted with the
manufacturer, had a neat ducted fan idea pushing air over the heatsink.
I collect commercial ham (amateur) amp's and not one has developed this
idea. It was neat, and I told him so.
>Could switchable filters (both gozinta and gozouta), a biasing technique,
>and proper operating instructions convert these wayward amps?
Read my answer above.
>Controversy or contribution to the public good?
You might have a problem cleaning up a pair of 4CX20K's that a young man
had in the rear of his Suburban. They'll need more than a few silver
mica's and some 12awg wire:-)
Phil G4ZOW
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