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Re: [TenTec] station power supplies

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] station power supplies
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:35:44 -0700
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On 9/7/2012 12:15 PM, chacuff wrote:
istribute DC power through our homes for lighting and avoid the inefficiencies in the crazy power supplies

Don't forget Ohm's Law. The reason we use AC for power distribution is that it can be transformed to the voltage needed to keep wire loss low. Low voltage DC is fine if copper is free. :)

73, Jim K9YC
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