[Amps] Silver oxide is an insulator

[jeremy-ca]

The only thing it encourages is a certain lunatic fringe that makes a profit 
selling snake oil cures.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Cutter" <d.cutter at ntlworld.com>
To: <Amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Silver oxide is an insulator


> Some would say that silver plating is a bad thing in a multi-band 
> amplifier
> because it encourages vhf parasitics.
>
> David
> G3UNA
>
>
>>
> snip
>> Silver plating of HF components serves only one purpose: to make it look
>> nice. If it's tarnished it still works fine.
>>
>>    -- Tom, N5EG
>>
>>
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