Ed Price wrote:
"Trent Hancock" wrote in message
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Perfect sense sir. Neither use tubes, but are considered boat
anchors. If
the use of tubes were the only determining factor as to if it was a
boat
anchor, then all currently mfgd. amplifiers are boat anchors. This
does
not
make sense.

Try putting a chute on the next time you jump and you will not land
as
hard.

Trent
KR4UW


Trent - your response to the first post, which was written in a polite
and helpful tone, nor your responses to subsequent posts, does not
motivate one to go out of the way to help you.

Nevertheless, as it appears that it's probably a homebrew unit, I
recommend you open the cover and see what chip(s) it uses, then do some
research to reverse-engineer it. I have several pieces of homebrew
equipment that you'd swear were factory made - but in the case of a
synthesized VFO, the fact that it was the subject of a QST article back
in the 1960s was the only thing that gave it away as a homebrew unit of
extraordinary quality.

Signetics made some compressor/compandor chips back in the 1970s and
1980s - IIRC the NE571 is one such IC.

Good luck and 73, John W3JN