On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Bill Turner wrote:
> At 02:43 AM 11/16/2005, you wrote:
>
>> 17-yrs ago, the first guy who ever went about installing a
>> low VHF-Q parasitic suppressor retrofit kit in a HF amplifier was
>> killed because he did not first switch off the 5000VDC anode supply of
>> the amplifier (that he built). Whose fault was that? The dead guy's
>> relatives inherited well over $10,000,000 from his estate and they
>> didn't even send me a thank you note. Ironically, the guy's callsign
>> was W5DH, so WA6MFJ, Bob, gave him the phonetics "W5 Dead Ham".
>
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> My God, I had never heard this story before. The very FIRST guy?
yes. He phoned me after reading the original article about parasitics
in the October, 1988 issue of *QST* and said that he had been looking
for a means of stabilizing his squirrelly 2x 4-1000A amplifier for
several years, and that the article made sense to him. I got the bad
news in a couple of weeks
> You must have felt awful even though it was clearly not your fault in
> any way.
True enough. If I ever get to be 80+, have a "senior moment", and
touch the live anode of a tetrode-with-handles amplifier, I'll avoid
dying a slow death in a hospital eating shitty food and having nurses
wake me up to give me a sleeping pill. (a true story)
> Sometimes those feelings are hard to shake. My sympathies, most
> sincerely. I hope you have put it behind you.
In <10-seconds, Bill.
cheers
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
>
>
>
Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734. www.somis.org
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