Hey, perpetual-motion machines anyone?
Honest. If you skip using instruments that can show you the result of your efforts, you can claim any BS result you wish.
Every "over-unity" claim I ever saw in any detail smacked of sloppy measurements and math that would get a flunking grade in any high-school (junior college?) lab class.
A "something-for-nothing" amplifier design is the same mistake, in a different specialty. If you JUST use a wattmeter to judge your outcome, no spec-an, no 'scope, not even a listen to what it sounds like, you can claim whatever you like.
Making use of normal RF design-analysis instruments would just "burst the bubble" for the wattmeter-only "designers".
Wattmeter readings sell product. May be all wrong, but it's a fact. If that's what attracts the paying customers, it's what people will build.
Making claims about things you can't (won't) measure and can't prove is just routine in the black-market linear trade. Always has been, really.
The "Let's try this. Nobody else has" crowd has the creative spark, but that's about it. Most "nobody else has tried this" kinds of design end up being bad ideas. That's why the legit design engineers "have never tried this". They tried it, proved it foolish, and collectively forgot to point it out. How many "1001 things that WON'T work" book titles have you seen in the book store?
Sure, there are always things that the engineering types don't know, or haven't thought of yet. Just because there is room for SKILLED creativity doesn't mean that randomly shuffling the deck "just to try this" will give you a working result. Not very often, anyway.
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