Bless the ARRL and FCC for opening the flood gates of incompetence.
Thats a goodly part of the reason I rarely operate HF SSB, except for a new
country, and spend most of my carbon credits on AM and weak signal VHF and
above.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Lamb" <k7fm@teleport.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Conservation of Energy!
>I was listening a few moments ago in the Extra Class section of 40 meters
>and two US hams were talking about amps. One has an amp wired for 120.
>The other ham said that he would not even think about running an amp on
>120. The reason was interesting. The ham said he used to run his amps on
>120, but with the cost of power these days, he could no longer afford to
>run it on 120, at double the power cost. Wait, it gets better. The other
>ham said he had not thought about it, but that made sense and he would
>change over.
>
> I turned the radio off and made breakfast.
>
> 73, Colin K7FM
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