carl...
the only thing that I can say to someone that
that uses (used) a HW-8 mobile
is "SIR"
Mike Bryce WB8VGE
SunLight Energy Systems
http://www.seslogic.com
http://www.theheathkitshop.com
"Electricity at the speed of light"
> From: "N4PY" <n4py@qvssoftware.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:09:47 -0500
> To: <TenTec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Argonaut V
>
> Years ago, when the Heathkit HW-8 was popular, I had one of these rigs
> running mobile in my car. I had a home made 6 foot whip antenna on my car
> and had it tuned to resonate on 15 meters. Very often driving to work, I
> would work a European on 21 mhz CW with the 2 watts from the HW-8 and a real
> lousy mobile antenna. I never cease to be amazed at how little power it
> actually takes to make a contacts if the band is quiet.
>
> And by the way, 20 watts is only about 1 S unit below 100 watts.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
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