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Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps

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Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:21:41 -0500
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 By the way, Stroker was a fictional character.
73
Bill wa4lav

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From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [amps-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
Fuqua, Bill L [wlfuqu00@uky.edu]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:17 PM
To: Gary Smith; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps

   In the old days stock car drivers usually got their nick names not from 
their successes but from their mistakes. I knew a guy called Fly Wheel McGuire 
in Nashville. He got the great idea that if he used a heavier flywheel he would 
be able to beat the other cars. It was the opposite. He got his nickname from 
the other drivers. Another was Stroker McGurt. He bored and stroked his engines 
until the cylinder walls were so thin that his engine blew up.  Well in racing 
that last 1 percent of power counts but in radio it is not worth pushing all 
and manybe a little more from an amplifier because those last few watts may end 
up costing a great deal for a fraction of a dB increase in output.  Another 
point, when you do push it just that little bit, it produces loads of splatter 
that affects the hams around your frequency, just like flying engine parts, and 
oil on the track may affect other racers.

73
Bill wa4lav

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From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [amps-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
Gary Smith [wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:44 AM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps

Watts from amps and cubic inch displacement from big block V-8's: there's 
nothing like more of `em to get the job done.
3's and such,
Gary...wa6fgi
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Roger (Sub1)
  To: amps@contesting.com
  Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps


  On 1/29/2011 9:30 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
  > Football talks about down rcvrs (men, not radios) "hearing footsteps."  
Great phrase if u know what it means.
  >
  > Like the majority of usa born hams (that is, old), I am hearing 
footsteps.....  likely one more sunspot peak (if it ever comes!), likely no 
more Yemen DXpeditions (or fill in your needs), likely this rig is the last big 
one I buy, and so on and on.
  >
  > Then, a nice amp makes even more sense.  There is nothing like, "got em on  
the first call" when that REALLY happens.  73 to all down rcvrs........
  I'd add,  After listening to a pileup trying for 5 minutes and no one
  makes it. THEN you get 'em on the first call.

  73

  Roger (K8RI)
  > Charles Harpole k4vud@hotmail.com
  >
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