I took the easy way out and put a complete Corvair 4 carb Spyder setup in a
60 Bug in 67 when I got married and sold the 64 GTO B/FX machine for a house
downpayment. What a sleeper at the stoplight drags.Went thru a few other
strange combinations( Chevy powered AH-3000, Jag, etc) before affording a 70
Chevelle LS-6 HT
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
> 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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