[Amps] Hard-drive Dive

Phil Clements philk5pc at tyler.net
Sun Mar 23 13:25:29 EST 2003


> >My guess is that things became progressively squirrelly as we added 160m and
> >WARC bands,
>
> **  adding new bands or adding 160m has no effect on a HF amp's vhf anode
> resonance and on its vhf gain.

It sure had an effect on external "big bangs," band switch cooking, and choke
fires.
IMO, the average ham with little test equipment cannot tell if an event was VHF,
HF,
or DC related at first glance. Most of us treat symptoms rather than the disease
because
we have no idea what the cause was.

(((73)))
Phil, K5PC





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