Richard Clark wrote:

SNIP

The ONLY advance we can claim in the last half century, is that no
power is lost to lighting up filaments in transistors.



Oh Boy!! 50 years of hamming, 43 years of engineering, 40 years of
marriage, 15 years of ministry, and 3+ years of retirement and NOW I
FINALLY FIND OUT WHY TRANSISTOR DON'T LIGHT UP!!!

I better hold on to my 3-500 Amplifier so I can demonstrated a ham
station to the neighborhood kids ... lots of light!