[AMPS] Another article.

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>
>Good news.  An article about amplifier construction that can be accomplished 
>using ordinary tools would be wonderful.  Hopefully, those ordinary tools 
>don't include the ever-evasive grid dip meter.  

no dipmeter

>.......
>Regarding a title for the article, I suspect you'll get plenty of 
>recommendations.  

€  Ugly Amplfiers Made Simple.  Unimpressive Amplifiers.  Grunge Fashion 
Amps.  

>I do hope that you include in the article your most 
>impressive set of reasons for using a tube with handles.  

70w per pound instead of only 30w per pound.  
Greatly increased hand comfort.  
Way lower cost per watt 
heats house way faster  

>I believe that is 
>one of your more considered arguments.
>
Building smallish amplifiers is booring to the point of snoring.  

>The article body itself deserves some consideration.  I would recommend 
>against a genuinely scientific article.  

not even close. 

>You must show some emotion in it, 
>and you must make it personal.  Humor is a good touch, as well. 

agreed.  

> Also people 
>will assume it is far more authoritative if you use a sesquipedalian style  
>The use of a ten dollar word where a one dollar word always impresses.  It 
>also helps to keep the riff-raff from asking stupid questions.  

Dictionaries are the enemy of the educated.  .  


>For instance, why should you ever use the word "childish" when the far more 
>opulent "puerile" is available?  

€  "puerile" is different than "childish".  Children can and probably 
should be childish from time to time.  However, only persons over the age 
of 18 can be puerile.  

> One of the best ways to tell that your 
>article is written well is when many readers are sent scurrying to their 
>dictionaries.  A particularly good substitution is to use "stentorian" when 
>"loud" would do.  

Stentorian is at least 10db louder than loud.  Stentorian means way Way 
londer.  Stentorian sounds have been known to ignite fires in nearby 
tufts of combustable fibers.  

> The mathematical superiority of ten letters when four 
>would do is clear to anybody who is not mired in the quicksand of puerility.
>
>And, of course, once you have the reader accustomed to words with the 
>correct number of letters, you should then immediately begin using 
>abbreviations.  Notice how much more technical HV-RFC sounds than "High 
>Voltage RF Choke".  Or how G-G just flows off of the fingers more 
>effortlessly than "grounded grid".
>
Indeed, indeed. 

>Another literary technique worthy of use by authors of grandiose intent is 
>to use uncommon words to substitute for vulgarity.  A stunning example would 
>be to use the noun "feculence" instead of "shit".  One would not want to 
>offend the sensibilities of nobility!

€  Verily.  //  Hear ye, hear ye.  Please be informed that the word 
"shit" is not on The Bill's banned word list.  
>
>Finally, the tone of the article must be correct for the audience.  As I 
>said earlier, make it personal.  Don't let any opportunity to bring a point 
>home escape.  Notice how "Operating an 8877 at a filament voltage of 5.95V 
>can only be recommended for those who have more money than brains" has a 
>more personal touch than "Operating an 8877 at a filament voltage of 5.95V 
>will result in shortened life and high replacement costs."

close enough
>
>Be certain, also, to use words that are clear to the most casual of casual 
>observers.  Notice that "HV-glitch" has a more obvious meaning than "high 
>voltage arc."

-  glitch - n. 
A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge 
of electric power.

Not all glitches involve high potential arcs.  
>
>Tying words together with hyphens is called for today.  The hyphen had 
>almost vanished from contemporary prose, and it should be our duty to bring 
>it back with a vengeance!  Phrases like "tune-C" and "VHF-resonant" should 
>be used in abundance.
\
hear, hear.  
>
>Those are just-my c. 1/6-bit's worth of feculent puerility.  Oh, dear, the 
>cosmic-rays are a-coming and I fear a stentorian-glitch is about to cause 
>bent-filament-helices on my under-construction twin-3-500Z amp with the 
>nichrome-chassis.  I will have to watch-for the dx-cops because they'll no 
>doubt hang-tie me when my adjacent-channel feculence is heard on the bands!

€ Rubbish.  Most DX cops couldn't care less about interference.  
>
cheers, Fred.  

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  


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