**GRUMPY**
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Classic Radio Operator Olde Timer 8220 [/color][/center]
"The King of Ping"
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Post by **GRUMPY** on Mar 31, 2013 14:28:57 GMT -5
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**GRUMPY**
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Classic Radio Operator Olde Timer 8220 [/color][/center]
"The King of Ping"
Posts: 4,342
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Post by **GRUMPY** on Mar 31, 2013 15:27:20 GMT -5
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Post by cbrown on Apr 1, 2013 8:30:03 GMT -5
Very nice. ;D
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Post by gator7 on Apr 1, 2013 17:39:19 GMT -5
So how many KW is he running? !0, maybe 15? 24 volt? Glad he's not in my area.  |
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Post by Night Ranger on Apr 2, 2013 10:07:07 GMT -5
So how many KW is he running? !0, maybe 15? 24 volt? Glad he's not in my area. One of the locals has a 1.5 KW dead key mobile (according to him). Whatever the output actually is it is pretty impressive. I could hear him coming in via skip when he was out in Phoenix, Arizona, and he was as strong as the bases out there. About a month later his alternator went poof and he had to buy another one. Night Ranger |
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Post by Sandbagger on Apr 2, 2013 20:13:29 GMT -5
So how many KW is he running? !0, maybe 15? 24 volt? Glad he's not in my area. One of the locals has a 1.5 KW dead key mobile (according to him). Whatever the output actually is it is pretty impressive. I could hear him coming in via skip when he was out in Phoenix, Arizona, and he was as strong as the bases out there. About a month later his alternator went poof and he had to buy another one. Night Ranger Back in the 90's, I was friends with a guy who went by unit 1490. He had a '73 Chevy truck that he ran a Cobra 29 into a Dave Made "4 Pill", driving a custom made Dave Made tube amp that he had installed in a bed mounted tool box. That setup would put the needle on a 10,000 watt Bird slug to around 8000 watts (which he showed me right in front of my house Luckily none of my radio stuff was damaged). Now I have no idea whether or not this power reading was full of spurious or whether that was his true on-channel power output. But it was impressive in any case. In the right humidity conditions, he could make a blue corona light up around his antenna, and it would leap at anyone who walked too close while he was keyed up. One of our friends took a video of this while it was happening from a fair distance, yet the RF was interfering with the video to the point where it took all the color out of the recording. You could actually hear his modulation vibrating the air coil in his antenna. Wild! |
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Post by zman on Apr 7, 2013 19:22:11 GMT -5
I wish the FCC would crack down on the power guys on CH 6.  |
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Post by cbrown on Apr 8, 2013 8:20:38 GMT -5
I wish the FCC would crack down on the power guys on CH 6. I think it's a lost cause. Sort of like abandoning a sinking ship. |
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