[Amps] Status of Alpha

[Mike Dishop]

 I would like to thank everyone for your positive comments here and for the flood of email support you sent me privately. It is very much appreciated.

I am sorry if I offended anyone here and promise that was not my intention in posting. I just wanted to set the record straight and let you hear it straight from the horses mouth instead of the other end :)  

So here I am, on record about our repair policy and the status of the Alpha business, and now you have solid facts without any need for speculation.

I am intimately aware of all of the things that transpired at Alpha over the years, and of the problems that developed.  I'm working very hard to make sure that none of that happens again.  My partners and I cleaned up everything in the business. ARFSL is debt free and all the suppliers even to RKR were /  are paid up.  We have all the parts we need to build, sell and service the amps.  We are in really good shape.  What we need now are sales.  We need you guys to order 8410s or 9500s.  When you do that, you put money back in the till and pay the people who build and maintain the amps.  Everything you spend with us goes right into the business. My partners and I have not drawn a single dime out of Alpha so far.  We will get our money for our effort when we launch products like the 4040 or some of the other cool stuff we are working on.

I just hope the message gets out there that we are here and we are supporting everyone and doing a good job at it.  If you have complaints ever about me or any of the people working in my organization you can always let me know and I'll do everything I can do within reason to make it right. 

We need your business and we want your business. I want to be very clear about that.  Every amp you purchase makes a difference. Every time one of you buys a new Alpha you can say to yourself "I just helped a great American company continue into the future".  You want to see high efficiency EER amps that don't get hot and don't cost a fortune?  the amp you buys today funds all the future efforts and products.  We aren't subsidized by anyone buy the people like you who buy our goods and services.

I also want to mention that they changed SSL certificates or something like that today, and maybe the website will be working more correctly.

I'm going to fade back into the background and continue getting to work on the things I need to do to ensure the continued longevity of these icons.

If you remember nothing else, just remember that good is not good enough if you intend to be great, and at Alpha we ARE making ham radio great again one amplifier at a time, and the next one could be yours! 
73

Mike N8WFF