>
>Note: I sent my question to Rich via private email. It was Rich's choice to
>send his response to the reflector.
>
Replies to AMPS posts that may be of interest to some members get posted
to the group. Request not to do so and I won't. Those who dislike what
I write should killfile me a.s.a.p.
>Even so, Rich, you dodged my question. And in so doing, answered it.
>
A clarification: It's true that I resort to drastic/semi-unethical
Measures in order to deal with animals who cause trouble. Coyotes come
here most nights and attempt to eat our domesticated animals. To
discourage the practice, I fire my 12 -ga, at them. My neighbors do the
same thing. - - - Leo was right: nice guys finish in last place.
cheers, Doug
>
>> -----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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