[Premium-Rx] consumer vs premium-rx's

[w3jn]

To which I can only add that it's interesting that it's easier to find 
replacement components for a 70-year old radio than those made after 1970 or 
so.

Just try to buy one of those Plessey RF ICs in the US in a quantity less 
than a hundred....

Standard TTL/CMOS semiconductors are GREATLY appreciated on this workbench.

73 John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carcia, Francis A HS" <francis.carcia at hs.utc.com>
To: "'Stephen M. Linscott'" <linscot at rice.edu>; "Premium-Rx (E-mail)" 
<premium-rx at ml.skirrow.org>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: [Premium-Rx] consumer vs premium-rx's


> Every job I've worked on for the past 8 years or so required a last time 
> buy
> for production. The COTs components change constantly and thermal
> performance is always
> a big question that requires a lot of testing. You no sooner qualify a
> system and parts go obsolete. 38510 / 883 parts were great and I love a
> radio with that type of normal components. my $.02. fc