Our Alpha Day wasn't just for 87As. It was for any Alpha amp, and our large
club (YCCC) had plenty of owners with Alpha amps of all vintages. Also, the
tech (it was Brad) setup shop at the house of an owner of what was at the time
the brand-new 9500. Evidently, the first production run of that amp was so
flawed Brad had to bring a 9500 with him to replace it. I suspect the company
was so worried about the bad publicity the amp was getting that they were
willing to send someone out to replace, install and test a new amp. Servicing
other amps probably helped cover the cost of the trip. I paid $315 for Brad to
replace and reprogram my CPU (I had replaced the MAX232 level converter, which
was also fried.)
Acom didn't charge me for a similar on-the-spot repair, but I traded the boss
some software I'd written.
73, Dick WC1M
-----Original Message-----
From: Art Boyars [mailto:artboyars@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2016 10:31 PM
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Alpha 87A Alpha Max -- Mea Culpa
It's a good season for penitence.
Regarding WC1M's "Alpha Day" I had posted:
Wow! That's gotta be a lot of 87A's needing fixed
to make it worth sending the technician out.
K3ZW points out that more models than the 87A were covered, so maybe there
were, indeed, a lot of amplifiers in the population. Still, without the
numbers, we don't know.
73, Art K3KU
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