[Amps] SS vs. Tubes (was "I gotta tell this")

[N7HIY]

i knew we would get to the core issue sooner rather than later.  We are 
cursed by the non-Intelligent Design of ham radio RF amplifiers.  i'll glad 
that someone spoke up for GOD's requirements for rf amp design and 
construction.  i never was blessed with GOD teaching ac circuit analysis or 
amplifier class operation, though i did have professors that had GOD like 
mental complexes.

my 3cx3000 amp must have been designed and built by the DEVIL, it does evil 
things to the neigbors electronics from RF overload.

Cliff N7HIY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Theo Bellamy" <theo.bellamy at spirittelecom.com>
To: "N7HIY" <N7HIY at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:07 PM
Subject: SS vs. Tubes (was [Amps] "I gotta tell this")
> I really wish I could get excited about building an amp with solid state
> devices. I know we are not on the cutting edge when we build amps with 
> 813s
> from WW2 or Russian Tank Radar tubes, but the transistors just seem so ...
> how can I put it? .... boring and lifeless. Maybe if I saw some really
> interesting looking homebrew ham amps with transistors I could get
> interested. But they all look like aluminum show  boxes. There is just
> something about hurling electrons through a vacuum with great heat, 
> guiding
> their flow with a little voltage as they slam into a metal plate with a 
> high
> and lethal voltage applied, hoping you have things adjusted correctly 
> where
> it won't self destruct in a flash of sparks and smoke. This all seems
> natural to me. The way God himself wants amplifiers to be. There is just
> something slightly evil and deceitful about the way transistors just die a
> silent death. And then there is all that solder and heat sink compound. It
> just ain't right .....
>
>
> ;-)
>
> Theo K4MO
>
>
>