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Subject: [Amps] the Dayton report
From: 2 at vc.net (2)
Date: Wed May 21 09:14:53 2003
>-
>The Italian made amp was a 4cx3000 layout, pretty 
>well made but no power supply shown. The Italian 
>builder (ham) was nice enough to talk with us 
>about it and show Dave and I pictures of his 
>multi band mobile operation.  My only problem 
>with the display amplifier was the unplated 
>copper tank coils which had already started to 
>turn dark. 

?  clean Cu with fine steel-wool, coat with polyurethane varnish and it will 
look better

>Otherwise very sweet...
>-
>A solid state 2.4kw rated unit using ST devices 
>just down the way. Quite the animal, 8 modules 
>of 2 device strips and some massive toroid 
>transformers within a 3 foot high 19 in rack cab. 
>-
>Round the corner was the Bulgarian Amp mfgr with a 
>nice row of products... thought it was Emtron but maybe 
>a company with a similar name.  Alpha was there, their 
>nice HF unit in operation and open cabinet views of 
>their six meter product. 
>-
>Ten Tec had a nice amplifier display, both old and 
>new products.
>-
>Overall, the attendance was about 70 to 80% of 
>previous peak year attendance.  Had a great 
>time, hope to make it again next year.
>cheers
>skipp
>-
>--------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: "George & Marijke Guerin" <gmguerin@voyager.net>
>Hello Mark, etc.
>Emtron did not have a booth at Dayton this year.
>The only "big" amp I saw was a commercial Italian one marked "not for
>sale"
>or something to that effect.
>73    George    K8GG
>
>
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