[BC] Gates VP-50 ?

[Phil Alexander]

On 2 Jan 2006 at 21:07, Douglas B. Pritchett wrote:

> Never had one, never saw one, but do have some realtives who did. Best 
> summary was that the VP50 was all hat and no cattle. A solution in 
> search of a problem. 
> Gates had a good, workable design in the 50C. It was what it was. But 
> the VP50 took a reliable design and complicated it exponentially. At 
> this point, I cross my fingers and hope Phil Alexander didn't have 
> anything to do with that design......

Nope! But I have recollections of making emergency parts shipments when
it was my turn in the barrel over a weekend that I wish I could forget.  
The only thing worse were the VP-100's for HF.  Sicuate (WRUL) was always 
a disaster. It was only a question of - what now?


Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037





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