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Re: [Amps] Vegetable oil dummy load

To: "Amps Reflector" <amps@contesting.com>,"Mark Hill" <g4fph@mjha.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Vegetable oil dummy load
From: "Gary Smith" <wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:24:16 -0800
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Har har hee hee and a BIG chortle.
Gary...wa6fgi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Hill" <g4fph@mjha.co.uk>
To: "Amps Reflector" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Vegetable oil dummy load


> Gary,
>
> I believe that to make what you did sound a lot more technical, you
> should have left out the detail that could be understood by all and
> instead cited it as an example of Pointing Vector Synthesis; E x H
> etc!  Just think how many of your wideband, EH, no-space, no-radial,
> something for nothing, miracle, crossed-field, finger-lickin'
> specials you could have sold on eBay!!
>
> Regards.
>
> Mark.
>
> -----------------------------------------
> At 18:02 28/02/2006, you wrote:
>>Although this sounded silly (to me) at first, I had heard of using a dummy
>>load for 160 mtr contacts.  Doubting this would work, I hoisted the dummy
>>load up forty feet or so in the air and worked more contacts than I would
>>have ever imagined with a 1:1 swr across the 160 band.  However, my dummy
>>load had xfrmr oil in it, needless to say there was no  "finger lickin'
>>good" aroma in the air.
>>73,
>>Gary...wa6fgi
>
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