[NLRS] [Mw] 1296 Amplifier Transistors

[John P. Toscano]

Look at: http://www.w6pql.com/xrf-286_amplifiers_for_23cm.htm

I am guessing that by "refurbish", the other vendor might mean that they 
were removed from a circuit board and cleaned up for sale.

I'm not sure where W6PQL gets his "surplus" parts from, but I wonder if 
they are pulled from Spectrian amplifiers, cleaned up, and then mounted 
to one of his machined heat spreaders, before they are included in one 
of his amplifier kits. It does not look like he sells the transistors 
separately from a kit, however. He does not say anything about having a 
shortage of parts to sell the amplifier kits, so maybe he has a lot of 
them, and maybe he can sell them separately. I don't know, but his web 
site has a link you can use to send him mail...

73 de W0JT

Al Ward wrote:
> 
> Bill
> I am curious how they "refurbish" a semiconductor device!!! Tuner cleaner
> and a brush?
> 73
> Al W5LUA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microwave-bounces at lists.valinet.com
> [mailto:microwave-bounces at lists.valinet.com] On Behalf Of Bill Ress
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 5:13 PM
> To: Darrell
> Cc: NLRS List; microwave at lists.valinet.com
> Subject: Re: [Mw] 1296 Amplifier Transistors
> 
> Hi Darrell,
> 
> The web site shows the device as "refurbished." Now I'm not sure what 
> that means relative to a semiconductor device. These could well be 
> devices that fell out of the Motorola manufacturing specification 
> limits. Aaah, but the price is right.
> 
> Regards...Bill - N6GHz