“Where do I begin to tell the story…………………”
About 18 months ago, I came into contact with this CB’er who needed repair work done on some “Legacy” equipment (my mentor and former employer, W8ERG SK was very prolific in his manufacturing. I am the “Go-to guy” when it come to stuff that he constructed).
As I am doing repair work for him, I am watching him burn up three Imax Ground plane Antennas from too many watts input. As quickly as I repair the equipment (Drake L4-B, Varmints, Golden Falcons, Heath SB 220’s ) he destroys it and, I cover it under a warranty circumstance; everything he touches turns to "ca-ca". I confront him and tell him that I cannot continue support his stupidity surrounding the amplifiers.
He goes out and buys this: DCP00956.jpg and, he burns the parasitic suppressors off, flattens the tubes and, shorts out the Load tuner.
http://forums.hamisland.net/showthread.php?12176-OK-who-did-it
Eventually, he talks me into getting into bed with him by selling him a QRO amp that I constructed. He gets it home and, just like everything else, the “Reciprocal Midas Touch” kicks in and, I attempt to do the responsible thing by getting the RF deck and bringing back to repair; I leave the B+ power supply at his house.
While I have the RF deck on the bench, the CB’er takes the B+ supply and starts running back and forth between numbers of people (in different cities!!!) who try to hook their RF decks to his B+ supply. I find out about it and, I tell him that this has damaged our business relationship and ends any and all agreement from me to support the equipment because he has modified / abused it. Now, he cannot even make the B+ supply available for me to connect the RF deck to in order to test.
So, in conclusion, I have been doing work on a piece of equipment owned by chicken-band whore/operator who has abandoned interest and left the equipment in an unusable state. He is not responding to phone calls, voicemails or, Text messages. I am thinking of some combination the following actions:
I need your sympathy, prayers and, the largest container of Flea-Powder that you can find; one application will not be enough. I need enough to treat my whole house and also my “Brain”. Please pray that I do not continue to sink to a level lower than that of Whale Shit at the bottom of the Marianna’s Trench.
- Remove / scavenge valuable components and replace them with lower wattage scrap.
- Place doggy poop in several Ziploc bags; duct tape the same to bottom of RF deck.
- Seal the RF deck with multiple tamper proof labels.
- Label reads, “This equipment has not been tested to compliance to FCC 47 CFR Part 15.
- File a Lien for the service provided and attach it to his property.
ETA: Thanks in advance for all the "You stoopid SOB" comments that I get; I deserve them.
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