Note: I sent my question to Rich via private email. It was Rich's choice to
send his response to the reflector.
Even so, Rich, you dodged my question. And in so doing, answered it.
Regards,
Doug, K4DSP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich... [mailto:2@mail.vcnet.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 1:00 AM
> To: doug@nc.rr.com; AMPS
> Subject: Re: [AMPS] FS:ARRL-002 Hipersil Xfmr
>
> >On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:45:16 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >>? A Dahl 46- pounder is suitable for an amplifier that will
> supply 8k pep
> >>to the feedline in SSB mode. However, it is not ethical to
> transmit more
> >>RF than is needed to communicate.
> >
> >It's poor amateur practice, too. And in the U.S. I believe it is
> >illegal to run more than 1500W PEP output on the amateur bands, even
> >if you claim you need the extra power. (Or were provoked by sociopaths
> >:-) So seriously, Rich, given the statement you made above and the
> >account on your web page of your use (on 40m) of a 20 dB amplifier
> >(1200V peak), wouldn't one be led to believe that you are not an
> >ethical person?
> >
> ? As you may have guessed, I like to discuss unboring topics. Politics,
> scams, religious cults, psychohistory, whatever. C. 1980, I was getting
> jammed by various True Believers on the 40m daytime soap known as the
> "Combat Zone" (7250 - 7260 KHz). Since the FCC apparently wasn't going
> to do anything about what was undoubtedly the most entertaining daytime
> variety show on 40m, I decided to build something that was a bit more
> difficult to jam. I figured it would take about 10db more steam to
> accomplish this than my 10db gain SB-220 provided. Coming up with a
> suitable design for a 20db amplifier took a couple of months. This
> involved discussing the project on the Combat Zone. Construction took
> another few months. Debugging took c. another month. I quickly learned
> that a 20db amplifier does not prevent sociopaths from jamming the people
> one is trying to communicate with. Thus, the 20db amplifier (a.k.a., the
> "Plywood Box) was not much more than a fun project.
> - Years later I discovered that one of the employees at the FCC
> monitoring station in Livermore wrote poetry about the shenanigans that
> went on. A friend in the FCC sent me a copy. I still have it.
> Curiously, the largest group of complainants about my 20db amplifier to
> the FCC was contest stations who were rumoured to also run "tetrodes with
> handles".
>
> >I'm curious, since you appear to make statements about using more
> >power than necessary fairly frequently.
>
> ? I used enough power to overcome the jammers when they were doing their
> thing. When they were not jamming and the propagation was ok, I ran
> 140w-pep.
>
> >Are such statements made tongue-in-cheek?
> >
> ? No. The Plywood Box was sold after I had a brain glitch. During the
> next DX contest, you might hear it.
>
> cheers, Doug
>
> - R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K,
> www.vcnet.com/measures.
> end
>
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