[Amps] Building amps

[Charles Harpole]

>From most of the replies, it appears that building some thing has fallen way down the list of fun ham things to do.  I did like the idea of a window to watch the 3-500z glow cherry red, the only way to run them, and the "modern" guys who are now slaves to the "latest and questionably greatest" SS and so on. Here is something to think about.............. Ham radio is basically obsolete, with the rare exceptions of satellites and one or two cutting edge single man efforts.  Given this, I think we should begin to think of ham radio the way collectors and users of Model T and other "legacy" cars or those who fly model airplanes.  These are honorable pursuits and very fun, but do not depend on fooling themselves that they are "cutting edge."  In fact, not being cutting edge is part of the fun.  So, I recommend we return to our roots of being self builders and experimenters like the good old days. BTW, the day the American govt. tells me I can not build, in my own home with my own hands, a ham radio amplifier, I am moving out. 73,

Charles Harpole
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