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Subject: [AMPS] Seriously big transmitting tube
From: doug@nc.rr.com (Doug Hall)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:17:38 -0400
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:15:15 -0700, you wrote:

>
>>> >Hi Folks,
>>> >   Want to build a really big amp? Have a look at:
>>> >
>>> >http://home.nc.rr.com/thehallway
>>> >
>>> >for one possible tube choice. Seriously, does anyone know what a
>>> 4CM400,000
>>> >sells for? Gotta be expensive. But it's pretty impressive to look at a
>>> >wattmeter and see it reading 500KW forward power...
>>> >......
>>> Hows about a nice brain tumor, Doug.
>>>
>>I wondered about that while I was there. If I recall correctly the antenna
>>(a curtain) was about 1000 feet away, beamed in the opposite direction. And
>>the transmitter wasn't built in a plywood box. Still...
>>
>I heard about one site where birds would instantly loose their feet if 
>they landed on the insulated guy wires for the curtain antenna.  
>
>cheers, Doug
>
>-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  
>end

Sea stories, according to my friend from VOA...
73,
Doug


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