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From: "Kurtis Burton" <wworldwidedx@comcast.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 7:38 PM
Subject: [Amps] Alpha 87A
> Let me get your thoughts on something. I called Alpha to get the sequence
> code to unlock the 10 meter band and the gentleman got on the line and he
> knew about anAlpha 87A that I got the other day by an earlier conversation
> and that it was basically a New Old Stock amplifier and he told me and
> really urged me to send the amp to them (Alpha) and let them do all the
> upgrades. Now here is were it gets interesting, I asked him,
>
> "Well okay, if I do decide to send the amp...can you give me a ball park
> cost on what it would be to update?" He said, "No we can't, you just have
> to get it here and let Brad (87A expert) go through it. I insisted that I
> may consider sending it but I would really like to have a figure to budget
> the cost. While on the phone he talked to the "expert" in the back (I
> could hear them in the background talking) and he came back on the phone
> with a $3,000.00 dollar figure. I was shocked! I then asked? "Can you
> send me an itemized list of upgrades you'll be performing on the New Old
> Stock Alpha 87A?" Answer: "No, if your amp really is that age (1991)
> and has never been back to us and according to our files we have no
> records of it ever coming back then it will need a lot of upgrades to get
> it to the Alpha recommended standards". Then the gentleman suggest that I
> may just consider selling the 87A and get my money back and if I were
> really considering spending $3,000.00 for upgrades,
> then I needed to consider buying the new Alpha 9500, etc.
>
> According to this gentleman at Alpha, without the upgrades this New Old
> Stock, never used Alpha 87A is a time bomb waiting to give me major
> problems. I missing something here?
>
> Jon
> W4LWY
Yes you got snookered into the Alpha trap that has caught many before you.
Id sell it and look at other brands.
Carl
KM1H
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