[AMPS] Alpha

[Tom Rauch]

Hi Bob,

> I don't intend to start a war, however based on my observations over the
> last 2 decades (at least) in going to rallies (what Americans call
> hamfests) and my observations of some of the questions which crop up on
> the ham radio newsgroups the average ham is too lazy to do anything.

I don't intend to start a fight, but from my viewpoint the average 
ham is too quick to condemn everyone else. 

> Some of the comments which appear on Rich Measures web site about
> commercial equipment are well justified, rigs with so called fast break in
> using standard power relays to switch linears, no soft start for power
> supplies, short circuiting HT lines as a safety measure, band switches
> that arc because there is inherent in the design of an amplifier a cause
> for VHF parasitic. 

I hate to tell you this, but if you think a VHF parasitic can arc a 
bandswitch you need a course in electronics 101.

Perhaps you should look at the voltages and currents required to 
do that, instead of being critical of other for not knowing what is 
going on.

Obviously you haven't researched the problem.

 


73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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