[AMPS] AL-80B Amps

[Wt8r@aol.com (Wt8r@aol.com)]

In a message dated 9/27/00 7:51:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ve3tu@rac.ca 
writes:

>  I think that reading and
>  understanding the handbook should be mandatory to obtain an amateur
>  license. The handbook is not perfect but it gives you a good start down
>  the road.

You mean that memorizing the answers to a few questions and regurgitating 
them at an infinite number of testing sessions doesn't qualify one to work on 
amplifiers that contain lethal high voltages?

Mandatory is a four letter word here in the US.  I doubt most newer amateurs 
even own or know what a Handbook is.  

Dave, WT8R 

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