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Subject: [AMPS] Dollars per dB
From: measures@vc.net (Rich Measures)
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:25:20 -0800
>........
>There are enough options that anyone can fit a decent signal into a
>budget, small lot, etc. 
>
? not easily on 160.  
>>
>>The article a couple of months ago in QST made it sound like you never 
>>need a PA.
>
>One of the worse examples and most biased I have ever read. 

?  [chortle] but they were still accepting advertisements for amplifiers?

>Pure bozoland. When was the last time anyone has read a credible amp article 
in
>QST ?
>
?  Rus Healy and another staffer wrote one sometime around 1991 which 
reviewed a number of currently available products.   Bruene  (?)  wrote a 
good one about grounded grid amplifiers.  //  I had an interesting 
conversation with the ARRL Lab tech who tested the AL1200.  He said there 
was intermittent arcing in the tank which appeared to be caused by a vhf 
osc.  Want to guess whether this was mentioned in the product review?  // 
 Does the League currently measure filament/heater potential in amplifier 
product reviews?   Does the League currently measure amplifier R-T and 
T-R switching times?  
>
>73  Carl  KM1H
>Life is too Short for QRP
>
?  Amen, Carl.    One evening during the Summer static season on 75m, a 
guy with a QRPP radio managed to break in to a ssb-vox group of about a 
dozen, of which I was a member.  We picked him up.  He was roughly S9 
amid 20db over S9 static bursts.  After finding out that most of us were 
using over a kW, he launched into a long-winded lock to talk sermon on 
the sin of running high power.  The group switched to upper sideband and 
continued the previous conversation while he ranted on lower.  


Rich...

R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures  


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