Why all the negativity and double standards in Amp Design

[nmewarlok]

heh ... most hams wont help their fellow ham even take apart a cb amp to learn and put in the proper tank circuits to get it working on other bands. the general response I got was "well sell the tubes out of it and get yourself a real transmitting tube amp" That wasnt the point, I wanted to learn on an amp that cost me ZERO, and was a major let down. Also your very much discoraged from running power on the ham bands. From what ive seen most ham amps of years past (I own 3 of them) have really great tubes in them from NO USE (yup all 2 out of 3 on original tubes). That part I do not understand.

Thats ok though. It started me on a 3 month reading binge. I did end up selling the tubes out of that D and A 12 tube amp after I played with it for a while and I learned more taking it apart peice by peice than I did just staring at it.

I am a ham. I too grow tired of the "elitist" attitude of SOME (not all) of "fellow" hams. Even posted a nice rant on my own qrz page about it. I wonder how many of the elitist ones have gotten pissed off because of what they read.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

heh ... most hams wont help their fellow ham even take apart a cb amp to learn and put in the proper tank circuits to get it working on other bands. the general response I got was "well sell the tubes out of it and get yourself a real transmitting tube amp" That wasnt the point, I wanted to learn on an amp that cost me ZERO, and was a major let down. Also your very much discoraged from running power on the ham bands. From what ive seen most ham amps of years past (I own 3 of them) have really great tubes in them from NO USE (yup all 2 out of 3 on original tubes). That part I do not understand.

Thats ok though. It started me on a 3 month reading binge. I did end up selling the tubes out of that D and A 12 tube amp after I played with it for a while and I learned more taking it apart peice by peice than I did just staring at it.

I am a ham. I too grow tired of the "elitist" attitude of SOME (not all) of "fellow" hams. Even posted a nice rant on my own qrz page about it. I wonder how many of the elitist ones have gotten pissed off because of what they read.

I understand it completely. You are not discouraged from running power on the ham bands but you are discouraged from UNNECESSARILY running power.98% of the time you do not need more than 100 watts on the ham bands to make the contact. There is a different mindset between hams and CBer's when it comes to running power. Most CBer's think they need to run power in order to work a little DX.Some get really ecstatic about working Europe from the east coast when running "only" about 400 watts. 99% of hams on the east coast would work Europe all day long and not even light the filaments in the amp. Of course there are those that use full legal limit to work across town too but they do it out of idiocy and not necessity.