[BC] Happy Birthday Bob

[wpio fm 89.3]

I'll say happy birthday and thanks for creating the 8000 which this 
noncom bought its first one used in 1988.  I was in in Pensacola on a 
trouble call when it came in.  I was so excited to get to it, it cost me 
a ticket in Tallahassee.  It replaced two Level Devils.  When the cop 
querried as to the reason for the big hurry, there was no way I was 
going to explain it to him.  It added $150 to the cost of the Optimod's 
used price then of $1500.

Ok, I'll bore the birthday fun with one more Optimod related story. 
Before the used ones were down in our price range, I thought I attempted 
to make a house version of limiter which we called, a "Poor Man's 
Optimod."  It used two of those OP AMP LABS (made in LA?) limiter (octal 
socket) units.  It sounded so bad we could not use it.  Bob Orban knows 
limiting.  OP AMP LABS doesn't...at least in a radio application.

Randy
wpio (noncom)