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ham_amplifiers@yahoogroups.com, "Robert B. Bonner"
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> Extremely high power makes for an interesting experiment thats
all.
### agreed. 2.5 kw out becomes so boring... it's mundane... like
pushing a lawnmower aimlessly about.. or punching holes in
doughnuts.
I have not used my big box on real antennas for many many years.
However i still fire it up into a dummy load, and i still try and
> improve its circuits. Does that make sense probably not.
### sure it makes sense... called... "tweaking" and .."boiling oil"
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> Anything above 1 kilowatt is very hard to justify on the needs of a
> communications circuit.
### say what ?? 13 kw is a real kick.... 1 call does it all. No
need to mess about trying to crack a pile
up... hit the switch,,,
in/out in 5 seconds every time. You BECOME the pile up.
I would argue that its only the lower bands where it may be of
some help. Even then its hardly needed
#### Tell that the guys with s9 noise... or even more with summer
time static.
and is only helpful in the case of jammers etc.
### Then u gotta get ur buddy's to run some serious qro too...
called reverse jamming.. where the jammer is just wasting his
time...and everyone just talks over him.
Its shame having a high electricity bill because someone else has
a poor receiving location!
### Did ud really see a high electric bill ??? At night... I shut
off the natural gas furnace and natural gas fireplace... since
shack in basement 8 x 10' room. Usually use just one small 1 kw
baseboard heater. Run some kw's.... and baseboard heater gets shut
off... so it's a wash.
### I never could understand why these qrp 5
watt artists.. would
sit there in Colo... and have a 1500 w CCS electric heater going at
their feet in winter time in basement. So u see... qro has merits.
### qro heats ur home... makes u feel better, reduces stress.. u
feel like u just beat collins/henry/
harris, at their own game...
lots of satisfaction, ur friends are all impressed..esp wide eyed
computer geeks, and it's fun to watch plate meter's bouncing
up/down...ditto with wattmeter. You have the only 0-5 A plate
meter in town. You have the only 0-1 A grid meter in town. You
have the only 10/25 kw slug in town. Ur plate xfmr will power 8 x
homes in winter. Ur girlfriend will be dully impressed. You have
more power than the local college FM station. Ur friends with 25
watt push pull tube audio amps are really impressed, [esp with a 2
x4-1000 amp.. and a window, and tubes cherry red] U have more power
than 99.99% of the hams on the planet. Ur mother
would be proud.
Pundits think you are actually a 'broadcast engineer'. 11m ops are
really impressed. You can dim all the lights on your street. Who
else can say they actually smoked the pole-pig in front of their
home.... and plunged the entire street into darkness. No need for
counselling or self medication. You are more focused, and have
better concentration.
.esp around 8-10 kv. You can light up
several 8' fluorescent tubes in your back yard... with no wires
attached. People stay clear of you in aisle 6 of your local grocery
store. You can casually mention stuff at the local hamfest... like
how you set the tree's on fire.. and blew the end insulator's off ur
dipole. You can give a real Corona demo late at night. You once
melted RG-17 on 10m. QST will never publish your schematic.
Later Jim.. VE7RF
