pentalab wrote:
> ### 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.

This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long long time! Thank
you. I'm going to print this out and hang it on the wall!!

Philip