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[Amps] Vodoo and Bill Orr

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Subject: [Amps] Vodoo and Bill Orr
From: stevek at jmr.com (Steve Katz)
Date: Tue Feb 11 13:46:45 2003




> >
> **  I do not recall seeing such an article in QST.  As I recall, the 
> first QST article to show an autopsy photo of a gold sputtered tube was 
> "Parasitics Revisited" in September, 1990.  Subsequent to this QST 
> article , Bill Orr wrote a letter to QST stating that said article 
> contained numerous technical errors.  However, Mr. Orr did not mention 
> any technical error.  QST sent me a photocopy of Mr. Orr's letter.
> 
> //Bill Orr also wrote a letter to QST, and one to me, chastising me for
> writing a construction article about running an 8877 at 4kv+ anode
> voltage, and how dangerous X-rays would be emitted from the tube under
> those conditions.  I just did it to see how easy the 8877 would be to
> drive with lots of suds on the plate, and found out it sure gets easy.
> QST never printed the letter.  -WB2WIK/6
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, Dennis.
> 
> > I do not have any more details on the subject because we were QSO'ing
> about 
> >another area of high power amplifier design at the time and this was an 
> >'oh-by-the-way' type of conversation we had.
> >
> > Unfortunately, when Lucent technologies 'force reduction retired' me on 
> >November 15th after 37 years of service, they only gave me about 3 hours
> to 
> >clear out my many years worth of accumulated 'stuff' and I did not have
> the 
> >time to retrieve my email archives; so those details were lost forever.
> >
> > But if Joe or his friend are still around, and someone out there knows
> them 
> >and can contact them, they may be of some help in resolving this issue.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Dennis O.
> 
> -  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734, AG6K, 
> www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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