[TowerTalk] Yaesu - 2700 and 3800 rotors

[Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL]

donhall161 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I share your caution about semiconductor reliability, perhaps tinged by my 
> experience at Bell Labs and Texas Instruments, stretching from 1953 to 1995.
>
> 73  Don  K5AQ 
>
>   

Perhaps NEVER was a bit over the top.  :-)     However, I've been 
playing with transistors since the little pinched top 2N107 hobbyist 
device and I have yet to experience a failure in any of my equipment.  
Just plain dumb luck, I suppose.  On the other hand, I've had to replace 
quite a few vacuum tubes over that same time period.  In my experience 
with electronic gear, reliability in general went up by several orders 
of magnitude when we switched from tubes to transistors.

73,

-- 

Ken K4XL
k4xl at arrl.net

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