[1000mp] Key clicks and amps

[Tom Rauch]

> is it not paradoxical that only the Big Three (and JRC) have had the
> guts to embrace solid-state amateur HF amplifier technology, stick
> with it and develop it - whilst the amplifier manufacturers on this
> side of the Pacific are still lost in the thermionic past.

Odd. I thought Ameritron was a USA company.

They had a MOSFET amp and a bipolar amp since 1988. They now have a 
switching supply in works to go with the MOSFET amp, and are 
developing a multi-kW solid state amp around the switcher.

As a matter of fact, I did a solid state amp design for Heathkit in 
1985 but they decided to can the amateur business before releasing it 
and a couple other amps.   

> One cannot help drawing the parallel of Fuji Film, which took an early
> lead in digital photography (as compared to Kodak, which appears still
> to have difficulty realising that the days of chemical photography are
> numbered).

I hope you are more up to date on film than amplifiers. ;-)

73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com