----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242@ispwest.com>
To: "Joe Isabella" <n3ji@yahoo.com>; "Amps" <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] How about this furnace?
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> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> At 02:57 PM 1/1/2006, Joe Isabella wrote:
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>>Tell that to the MARS operators that had to run 2kW++ to get
>>through... I personally have friends that were overseas and needed
>>every watt they had from Big Henrys & Collins amps.
>>
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> We were talking Katrina-level communication, not overseas MARS.
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> Nobody on the other side of the world is going to be of much help
> with Katrina-type disasters. :-)
>
During the Katrina disaster there was a noticable increase in both official
and morale traffic on the af mars phonepatch net.
See for yourself at http://www.svs.net/afa1en/scoreb5.htm
According to my log about forty percent of my traffic was with aircraft
located "on the other side of the world" and doing their darndest to bring
assetts back home.
> Like it says in the FCC rules, use the power appropriate to the communication.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
>
> _______________________________________________
Mike k1ern
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