You know, another thing about hot roding and amplifiers. Building or buying an
500 or 600 watt amplifier is not so expensive the price is not linear.
I have a 1970 VW I restored and the first 150 HP is not so bad, fairly easy,
the next 50 is really costly and then you have to think about heavy duty
transaxles,
and start worrying about things breaking. But it is fun to drive. Bonnie and
I went on dates in it in the 70s before we got married.
An amplifier with a pair of 572Bs or 4x 811As is not so bad but when you move
up to 8877 or other large tubes it is very costly unless you go to the junk
yard and get some
used parts. OOPS that should have been go to hamfest. There are Russian tubes.
but larger transformers and vacuum variable capacitors etc get costly.
73
Bill wa4lav
________________________________________
From: Carl [km1h@jeremy.mv.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:26 PM
To: Fuqua, Bill L; Gary Smith; amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
Stroker McGurk
http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/hrdp_9809_stroker_mcgurk_cartoon_series/index.html
And with flathead V8 Fords $5 at the boneyard it was normal to bore to water
and sleeve, get a few races and then get another block when the 3 main
bearing webbing let loose when you wound it past 4500 rpm
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
To: "Gary Smith" <wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
> In the old days stock car drivers usually got their nick names not from
> their successes but from their mistakes. I knew a guy called Fly Wheel
> McGuire in Nashville. He got the great idea that if he used a heavier
> flywheel he would be able to beat the other cars. It was the opposite. He
> got his nickname from the other drivers. Another was Stroker McGurt. He
> bored and stroked his engines until the cylinder walls were so thin that
> his engine blew up. Well in racing that last 1 percent of power counts
> but in radio it is not worth pushing all and manybe a little more from an
> amplifier because those last few watts may end up costing a great deal for
> a fraction of a dB increase in output. Another point, when you do push it
> just that little bit, it produces loads of splatter that affects the hams
> around your frequency, just like flying engine parts, and oil on the track
> may affect other racers.
>
> 73
> Bill wa4lav
>
> ________________________________________
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [amps-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
> Of Gary Smith [wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:44 AM
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
>
> Watts from amps and cubic inch displacement from big block V-8's: there's
> nothing like more of `em to get the job done.
> 3's and such,
> Gary...wa6fgi
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger (Sub1)
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
>
>
> On 1/29/2011 9:30 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
> > Football talks about down rcvrs (men, not radios) "hearing footsteps."
> Great phrase if u know what it means.
> >
> > Like the majority of usa born hams (that is, old), I am hearing
> footsteps..... likely one more sunspot peak (if it ever comes!), likely
> no more Yemen DXpeditions (or fill in your needs), likely this rig is the
> last big one I buy, and so on and on.
> >
> > Then, a nice amp makes even more sense. There is nothing like, "got em
> on the first call" when that REALLY happens. 73 to all down
> rcvrs........
> I'd add, After listening to a pileup trying for 5 minutes and no one
> makes it. THEN you get 'em on the first call.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
> > Charles Harpole k4vud@hotmail.com
> >
> >
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