[Amps] Alpha 87A

[Carl]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurtis Burton" <wworldwidedx at comcast.net>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 7:38 PM
Subject: [Amps] Alpha 87A


> Let me get your thoughts on something.  I called Alpha to get the sequence 
> code to unlock the 10 meter band and the gentleman got on the line and he 
> knew about anAlpha 87A that I got the other day by an earlier conversation 
> and that it was basically a New Old Stock amplifier and he told me and 
> really urged me to send the amp to them (Alpha) and let them do all the 
> upgrades.   Now here is were it gets interesting, I asked him,
>
> "Well okay, if I do decide to send the amp...can you give me a ball park 
> cost on what it would be to update?"  He said, "No we can't, you just have 
> to get it here and let Brad (87A expert) go through it.  I insisted that I 
> may consider sending it but I would really like to have a figure to budget 
> the cost.  While on the phone he talked to the "expert" in the back (I 
> could hear them in the background talking) and he came back on the phone 
> with a $3,000.00 dollar figure. I was shocked!  I then asked?  "Can you 
> send me an itemized list of upgrades you'll be performing on the New Old 
> Stock Alpha 87A?"   Answer:  "No, if your amp really is that age (1991) 
> and has never been back to us and according to our files we have no 
> records of it ever coming back then it will need a lot of upgrades to get 
> it to the Alpha recommended standards".  Then the gentleman suggest that I 
> may just consider selling the 87A and get my money back and if I were 
> really considering spending $3,000.00 for upgrades,
> then I needed to consider buying the new Alpha 9500, etc.
>
> According to this gentleman at Alpha, without the upgrades this New Old 
> Stock, never used Alpha 87A is a time bomb waiting to give me major 
> problems.  I missing something here?
>
> Jon
> W4LWY


Yes you got snookered into the Alpha trap that has caught many before you. 
Id sell it and look at other brands.

Carl
KM1H