[Amps] Hot Switching

[Ian White, G3SEK]

Rich wrote:
>Just what the inventor of RF-actuated switching was thinking when he 
>invented it is way beyond me.   Or, maybe he wasn't?

It seems to be a crossover from CB amps, via the "bricks" intended for 
amateur VHF-FM hand-helds that don't have a PTT output. But from there, 
RF-actuated switching seems to have trickled down into all kinds of 
inappropriate uses.

"Real amps" use hard-wired PTT... always.

-- 
73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                            Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek