On a sunny day (Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:38:08 -0700) it happened Frank Gilliland
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:25:43 GMT, Jan Panteltje
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On a sunny day (Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:53:36 -0700) it happened Frank Gilliland
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knowing that your market is limited in both scope and time. Feel free
to waste your time on a product that will soon be without a market.
The only thing you have going for you is the price.... but then again,
have you done any market research lately? Do you know what people will
pay for a decent amp? Probably not. But I have.

So now that the cat's out of the bag, how hard are you going to fight
this? Or would you rather buy into it and make a ****load of money?
Feel free to email me with your answer.

There is a problem here with 'profit'.
I just had a look at where I bought some other stuff, what amplifiers
here go for:
100W MOSFET 42 Euro and 86 cent ( 54 $ and 44 cent).
500W 242 Euro and 93 cent (308 $ and 58 cent).
1000W 660 Euro and 15 cent (838 $ and 55 cent).

Will indeed be hard to make any $$$$ on 100W amps.
Not so different in the US I think, 1700W 650$:
http://www.amateurlinearamplifiers.c...ce=hotproducts

500W 329$
http://www.amateurlinearamplifiers.c...ce=hotproducts


I cannot make 100W for 54$, and I cannot make 1700W for 650$......
You have to count the hours too.

Telstar has been at it now for years.....
At 4$ profit per amplifier you'd have to sell zillions.
:-)

OTOH as a learning exercise making them was great.
Just that I stopped when they were at in the street with the radio car to
arrest me, spotted them just in time.... OK maybe I had some harmonics...
and one licensed amateur was upset.... when he did see me with those big
toobes.
'If I hear you I will turn you in'.
He was later overrun by a car IIRC.
It somehow strengthened my faith in God.
But that is all of the past, and not on 27MHz.

Honestly.
Damn are we honest today.


That's friggin' twisted. I "found God" when I was in the USMC and lost
a KY-57. Not a good thing to lose. I eventually found it, but ever
since then I've been an atheist. Go figure.....

LOL, maybe it was used in-between by the Russians.
God -to me- is an experience inside yourself that causes bliss, stronger
then all the reasoning and thinking we do.

But in those years (sixties) in the sense of
'well there must be one after all' and 'divine justice' etc.
Or 'There but for fortune go you and I'.
It looks somehow some people are destined for some things, it always works
for them... Others do the same and fail.
And noting in nature can stop that, or change that.
Maybe that is cunning, some sort of awareness.
Some become astronauts, some lose state secrets... some always end up
with radio / tv equipment....
Maybe we have no free will, are a playing ball of all other forces in the
universe, and can see in a clear moment where we are thrown.

So we should not blame it on Telstar if anything is wrong with his amp.
I have to admit his PCB looks the nicest of all the ones at that site.
But whre is it heading? I dunno, but it is possible he does.

OK

Bu