"Dave Shrader" wrote in message
news:fTZGb.45760$VB2.83730@attbi_s51...
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!

I'm dating myself but I miss filaments/vacuum tubes and the wonderful
smells/aromas of the hamshacks I used to visit as a kid in the sixties
before I got my ham license. Luckily I got to work with enough big vacuum
tube tx/rx equipment in the USAF to know how much better what we have now
really is. I bought my childhood dream receiver a few years ago, a
Hammarlund HQ-180, and it brought back some great memories at mediocre
performance.

73
Jerry
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