Jim, You remember quite accurately.
I’ve lived here since about 1968. Dad retired from the Air Force at Keesler.
He was an air traffic controller...I spent many hours with him in the control
tower. If you were here around 1970 then you saw first had the remnants of
Hurrican Camille. What a mess.
Yep we had a Taco Bell in Gulfport...corner of 25th Ave and Pass Rd. Ate there
a lot years ago too.. Edgewater mall is still there...modernized especially
after going under water during our most recent major hurricane Katrina. The
KarmelKorn shop merged with Orange Julius and I think is still there but
smaller.
Do you remember any of your instructors names. Have a good friend whose Dad
taught Electronics at Keesler...Larry Patterson. He was a civilian contractor.
Keesler has been like home to me.
I plan to retire somewhere else though....I have come to hate the Hurricane
threat and the Humidity here....
Looking at East TN. My Dads family was from there....we vacation there and
love the area.
Good to talk to you Jim... Where do you call Home? Just had my Son move to
Lancaster CA after graduating college. Working for NASA at Edwards AFB.
Cecil Acuff
Gulfport MS
K5DL
From: Jim Lowman
Sent: July 1, 2013 6:56 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 situation
Thanks for the explanation, Cecil. It makes sense.
Gulfport, MS eh? Well it's been a lot of years. I was in
electronics/radar school at Keesler AFB from September, 1970 to May, 1971.
We were newlyweds then, and would drive over to Gulfport the back way to
go to the Taco Bell, of all places. How little we knew then!
More often than not, we'd stop at the mall on the way back to Biloxi.
They had a KarmelKorn shop.
73 de Jim - AD6CW
On 7/1/2013 4:21 PM, chacuff@cableone.net wrote:
> Higher output from the device before distortion occurs. You can only get so
> much power out of a PA with a 12V power supply before you drive it into
> distortion. 100W is pushing it at 12 v so distortion occurs...that same PA
> with a supply of 48V is capable of providing that same level of power very
> cleanly.... There are peaks that exceed the supplies capabilities at 12 V
>
>
>
> I guess a very simplistic parallel would be battery operated power tools...(I
> know tech guys...poor choice) you may have noticed over the years that they
> went from 12V batteries to 14.4 to 18 and higher voltages...because of the
> limited amount of power available at a given voltage.
>
>
>
> I guess if we all ran our 100W PEP radio’s at 50w PEP the problem would be
> greatly reduced because we wouldn't bump into the power supplies limitations
> and resulting distortion.
>
>
>
> Same concept applies to the Mixers listed below...if you want to drive them
> hard you need to have enough supply voltage and current available to keep
> their output clean.
>
>
>
> Hope that helps a bit...
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cecil Acuff
> Gulfport MS
> K5DL
>
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