Peter Chadwick wrote - disbelievingly -
>And the pins on the mains connector must be gold plated to
>avoid non-linearities.
It gets worse. Maplin in the UK sell a range of gold-plated connectors
for car audio (like you could hear anything below -10dB). This includes
a gold-plated connector to the car battery and... wait for it... a gold-
plated Allen wrench to tighten it up.
And we worry about RF amp fetishism!
73 from Ian G3SEK Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek
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