>
>In a message dated 12/29/00 12:37:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>w8ji@contesting.com writes:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> > I don't intend to start a war, however based on my observations over the
>> > last 2 decades (at least) in going to rallies (what Americans call
>> > hamfests) and my observations of some of the questions which crop up on
>> > the ham radio newsgroups the average ham is too lazy to do anything.
>>
>> I don't intend to start a fight, but from my viewpoint the average
>> ham is too quick to condemn everyone else.
>>
>> > Some of the comments which appear on Rich Measures web site about
>> > commercial equipment are well justified, rigs with so called fast break
>in
>> > using standard power relays to switch linears, no soft start for power
>> > supplies, short circuiting HT lines as a safety measure, band switches
>> > that arc because there is inherent in the design of an amplifier a cause
>> > for VHF parasitic.
>>
>> I hate to tell you this, but if you think a VHF parasitic can arc a
>> bandswitch you need a course in electronics 101.
>>
>> Perhaps you should look at the voltages and currents required to
>> do that, instead of being critical of other for not knowing what is
>> going on.
>>
>> Obviously you haven't researched the problem.
>>
>> 73, Tom W8JI
>> w8ji@contesting.com
>> ========================================================
>
>Tom,
>
>Since you are not the average ham, what, in your humble opinion, is the
>cause of bandswitch arcing ????????
>
>You seem to have eliminated all the things that DON'T cause arcs, what is
>the real cause?
>
? according to Mr. Rauch, he has not completed Electronics 101.
>
cheers, Dave.
- Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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