[AMPS] Big Bang Theories?

[Jon Ogden]

>Pardon, Jon, but sound waves don't propagate in the absence of some medium, 
>such as air or water. A big "bang" in a vacuum is essentially inaudible; 
>however the multi-hundred-amp current surge, or the voltage drop it creates 
>across a plate choke, for example, can and often does result in a very 
>audible BANG as the choke explodes.

You're right, Dick.  I realized that as soon as Rich pointed it out.  I 
sent that post too early in the morning after drinking too much beer with 
Peter Chadwick and getting too little sleep at Dayton!  

So perhaps it wasn't an arc-over inside the tube. 

73,

Jon
KE9NA


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