[Amps] 12 tube 3-500Z

[Dennis12Amplify at aol.com]

Dr. Schmidt,

 I am very interested in how you came to the conclusion that the amplifier 
was "Dave Made', since the bulk of those 'garbage' amplifiers are currently 
being constructed right here in the Midwest!

 And quite possibly by people who could be members of the QRO club you QSO 
with every day!

 The last 'garbage' amp that was for sale on E-Bay that was discussed here on 
this group was a 'WIZARD' amp, and I recently found out that he is a licensed 
HAM operator and lives somewhere around the Northwest side of Chicago.

 There are also at least three other builders of those 'garbage' amps on the 
Northwest Side of the Windy, I don't know their names but I believe one of 
them often used a 'handle' and used to be called 'Top Gun'.

 In fact the originator of the high power CB mobile, and those notorious KEY 
DOWN competitions, the guy who started it all back in the early 60's, was also 
an Illinois Native, and a licensed ham operator, who made lots of money, and 
from what I have heard he has since 'retired'.

 To the best of my knowledge, Dave was a Jersey boy, (and another licensed 
ham operator), who also made his cash quickly and then 'retired' into legal 
electronic businesses such as generic switching power supply construction, and the 
creation of boxes called 'motor mauls' that charge multiple batteries in 
parallel and then switches them in series at keydown time to provide the input 
voltage to a switchmode regulated 300 to 500 ampere supply capable of sourcing 
regulated voltages in the 14VDC to 60VDC range to solid state amplifiers used by 
both HAMS and CBrs in their high power mobile applications.

 Making those is legal while making what they supply is not!

 Living in the Midwest and being a CBer who could not afford any of those 
amplifiers myself, (but did occasionally make some money repairing them); I paid 
attention to what was going on around me.

 In the 60's and thru the early 70's there were more of those illegal 
amplifiers produced in Illinois (Joliet area), and Indiana, (Syracuse area), than in 
any of the other states until Palomar and Pride (West Coast), and D&A 
('Delaney and Adams' Nebraska), and Maco ('Majestic Communications' Tennessee), got 
into the business. Prior to that, the only Eastern region 'players' that I knew 
of were Sonar and Courier.

 To the best of my knowledge, and my actual experiences in trying to obtain 
repair parts, the majority of those illegal CB amplifiers were originally 
designed by licensed HAM operators and in many cases the businesses were actually 
owned by those same HAM operators.

Regards,

Dennis O.

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DAVE MADE DAVE MADE DAVE MADE

Sincerely,

Dr. William J. Schmidt, II  K9HZ
Trustee of the North American QRO - Central Division Club - K9ZC

"Collector of Edison Wind-up Phonographs... Do you have one for me?"
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