[Amps] Alpha PA-70V

[Don Allen]

I've known Molly and Gordon Hardman for some time, as well as Michael 
Seedman, CEO of RF Concepts.  It was my understanding that much of the 
work on Alpha amps under RF Concepts was done by a contract manufacturer 
in Colorado, very close to the RF Concepts facility.  If not the amps in 
"toto" so to speak, but at the very least, all of the SMD and PCB work.

BTW... Remember Practical Peripherals (the PC telco modem company)?  
Michael Seedman was founder and president.  Later, he was a major player 
in USRobotics/3COM.

73
Don W9CW

On 5/17/2014 5:13 PM, Jim Garland wrote:
> Anybody got one of the old Alpha vapor-cooled amps still running?  A friend
> just acquired one, but it has some problems (a transformer, if I remember
> right)? If the tube is still good (he doesn't have any way to test it), I'm
> advising him to restore it and put it on the air. Pretty rare amplfier.
>
>   
>
> Speaking of Alpha, I've heard (from a credible source, but consider this
> still in the rumor category) that after the merger, Alpha amps will be
> assembled in Tennessee, but that engineering, design (and possibly repairs?)
> will continue to be done in Colorado. I'm glad they're keeping engineering
> separate. The design philosophies of the two companies are very different.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim W8ZR
>
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