I see this fear of voltage and current prevalent among the "board-swapper"
type techs that have never worked on anything with more than 12 VDC. Jim
W5JO hit the nail on the head, there just isn't a lot of common sense around
these days.When fooling with HV, put one hand in the pocket and be sure to
be awake/alert.
Joe W4AAB
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<[email protected]>; "Jim Wilhite" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] A special day today
>
> Anyone who knows Leo Meyerson knows what a gentleman he is and if there
> had
> been some concern over the issues mentioned at the time of manufacture of
> the
> WRL/Galaxy, they would have been addressed at that time. After all, should
> anyone be injured by a bad design, that would probably spell the end of
> the
> products and no one wanted either of those to happen.
>
> Those radios were a product of their times. Caution should be applied
> today as
> it was yesterday. Accidents will happen and my immediate recall is Ross
> Hull.
>
> K0NG
>
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