[AMPS] Technical Question #1

[km1h@juno.com]

On Wed, 20 May 1998 07:13:04 +0000 Tom Rauch
<10eesfams2mi@mass1-pop.pmm.mci.net> writes:
>> Date:          Tue, 19 May 1998 10:43:06 -0400 (EDT)
>
>> >Is this an amplifier that you personally watched first hand in a 
>test 
>> >setup, or are the parameters above gleaned from a second source? 
>
>Unless you have details of the second hand report and are absolutely 
>sure of the source, we have to dismiss it.


Is that  "we" like in the royal version. Dont include me then since I do
not dismiss others opinions so easily.


> 
>> Both. But the amps I witnessed were not SB-220's or had 3-500Z's.
>> I would still prefer to stick to the SB-220 and related clones since 
>they
>> are so popular and the majority of readers can relate to them. 
>Roughly 4
>> out of 10 SB-220's that I buy have some sort of switch 
>damage...which is
>> why they are for sale...cheap. In almost every case, the owners say 
>the
>> amp was tuned and operating perfectly fine and the switch arced for 
>no
>> obvious reason. 
>
>Carl, consider the large conclusion you are leaping to here in 
>accepting the guy's personal "opinion".  A Ham you have never worked 
>next to, and probably never even met before, operating a  station you 
>have never seen, and with equipment you probably aren't even aware 
>of, tells you "I always tuned my amp correctly".
>
>It would be more productive to discuss facts, rather than opinions of 
>unknown individuals who are judging their own equipment and skills 
>as "nothing wrong with anything else".


I asked a very simple question Tom that you seem unable to answer so
instead surround it with noise.
Sorry I bothered to ask.

73  Carl  KM1H

>
> 
>
>73, Tom W8JI
>w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com
>

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