In a message dated 4/14/01 12:04:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
na9d@mindspring.com writes:
>
> The heat is just losses in the coil. 1.5 KW on 10m is a lot of energy.
> Think of how hot your 1.5 KW hair dryer gets. There is some loss in the
> coil and that is turned into heat.
>
I would say that the "losses" to heat in a 1.5KW hair dryer are about 100%
since that is what it is designed to do....convert 60Hz electrical power to
HEAT.
"Think of how hot your 1.5 KW hair dryer gets." If I hook a vertical antenna
to my hairdryer, can I use it as a spark gap transmitter ?
73 de
Dave, WT8R
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