On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 11:49 PM, Rob Sherwood wrote:
Any demonstrations I saw at Dayton were sending dits. ?Rob, NC0B?
Sending 50 wpm dots into a DL, is not exactly what I would call....'brick on key'.? ?But with peak reading leds, one would not know if they were using a cxr....or 50 wpm dots.? On my yaesu MK-V, it's very easy to reduce the duty cycle of a string of dots even further, by shortening the length of each dot.?
The late Art Bell, W6OBB, had a late model 1.5 kw alpha ( think it was an 89 with aux fan).....and it was tuned up for 10M FM, at 1.5 kw into a flat swr.? He drives to Vegas, 75 miles away...and? in the meantime, his cat comes into the shack, and falls asleep on the footswitch.? ?Art gets home, and smoke and stink in the shack.? ?Amp was roasted.? Art phones up Alpha and tells em it ran 1.5 kw on 10m FM for 4.5 hrs. Alpha tech tells Art..... 'don't believe all the advertising hype'.?
