Best wishes for all, with or without furnace........
I was teached that 7 X 7 = 49
Sometimes a scientist says oh! sorry its 49,001 while the commercial guy
looks around and says 7 X 7 = 48 ( untill 310106 )
When logic becomes legal ha ha.....
Have fun.
Jos on4kj
-----Message d'origine-----
De : amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] De
la part de Stan Stockton
Envoyé : lundi 2 janvier 2006 12:29
À : R.Measures; Joe Isabella
Cc : Amps
Objet : Re: [Amps] How about this furnace?
> From: R.Measures <r@somis.org>
> Date: 2006/01/02 Mon AM 05:56:44 EST
> To: Joe Isabella <n3ji@yahoo.com>
> CC: Amps <amps@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] How about this furnace?
> In a telephone conversation with a multi-multi contest station
> owner-operator in Colorado - whom I knew ran several 2500W amplifiers,
> he kvetched at length about contest stations that used "illegal 10kW
> amplifiers". The laugher is that the advantage of a 10kW amplifier
> over a legal amplifier is only 8db - hardly noticeable with QSB.
Rich - I am surprised that you would laugh at 8 db and refer to it as
"only" 8 dB - harly noticeable with QSB."
8 dB is only the difference between your average, city-lot shunt fed
tower on 160M and perhaps the highest gain 160M antenna in the world
which, just like having that gain in transmit power, is no advantage on
receive because a good beverage system would outperform that antenna on
receive. 8 dB is "only" the difference between a stack of five element
yagis (10 elements) and approximately sixteen five element yagis (80
elements) in phase which would also perhaps be the largest antenna
system on any HF band.
The difference between 2500W and 1500W is extremely difficult to achieve
with antenna gain once you already have about 13 dBi on an HF band.
There are plenty of variables in comparing results in contesting
without losing sleep or feeling guilty as to what place you might have
achieved relative to someone else who worked harder on their antennas
and did a better job of operating if you been legal in your operation.
In my opinion, running 2.5KW or 10KW in a contest is exactly equivalent
to playing in a golf tournament and dropping a ball out of your pocket
when no one is looking instead of declaring a lost ball.
Stan, K5GO
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