>Hello Rich,
>
>yeah, you are right. Or, should I say Murphy.
>
>Nevertheless I was too fast with the advice and "cure". The actual article
>has been published in Hints&Kinks 13th edition and not 14th as I wrongly
>stated. It is on page 5-22, the author is the: John O. Norback, W6KFV, ARRL
>Assistant Technical Coordinator. Besides other things, few good advices on
>3-500Z overheating pins and it's cures. And in those times, Rich you were
>still "respected" by ARRL, as they have had published some of your's advices
>and "cures" as well. Times changes, policies..... well, you know... The
>slices of bread that ARRL gets from prominent amplifier manufacturers are
>still.... THICK AS BRICK....
>
? The rub was more with advertisers than with the League. The match
that lit the advertiser's fuse was "The Nearly Perfect Amplifier" in
January, 1994 *QST*. ETO and MFJ were apparently the most vociferous.
There was also the problem that the ARRL's OO-Czar, Dick Palm had somehow
managed to appoint some Official Observors /OOs who were over the top
wannabe cops, especially in California. Several of them inspired me to
create the "Official Observor Observor Card" -- a.k.a., the OOO Card.
The recipients of schmuckish OO cards could then lampoon the OO with an
OOO card, thereby critiquing the schmuck. Some of them sent their OOO
cards to OO-Czar, Dick Palm, who launched a criminal investigation. When
Dick Palm eventually found out who created the OOO card, he reportedly
blew a 200A breaker. (A New England mole told me that this dispicable
revelation was made at a full-boat powers-that-be meeting in Newington.)
As a result, of all of the above, I got the boot. The good news is that
the contract - for amps chapter that I was writing for the '95 Handbook -
was broken by the League, so the material came to be free on the
Internet, instead of being sold for a somewhat uncheap price. The
laugher is that ETO's Dick Ehrhorn, and MFJ's Tom Rauch got the job of
writing the amps chapter.
cheers, Nermin
- R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K,
www.vcnet.com/measures.
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