Stroker McGurk
http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/hrdp_9809_stroker_mcgurk_cartoon_series/index.html
And with flathead V8 Fords $5 at the boneyard it was normal to bore to water
and sleeve, get a few races and then get another block when the 3 main
bearing webbing let loose when you wound it past 4500 rpm
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
To: "Gary Smith" <wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:17 PM
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
>
> ________________________________________
> 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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