[AMPS] Re: Our CB Brethren!

[Phil Clements]

This is electronic arm wrestling, Jon.
The antenna is a part of the system and they often fail
from the power applied.

The winner is determined on field strength meters...
not watt meters.

Phil, K5PC

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Ogden <jono@enteract.com>
To: Phil Clements <philk5pc@tyler.net>; Jim Reid <jreid@aloha.net>; Steve Bermudez
<odin@webspan.net>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] Re: Our CB Brethren!


> Phil Clements wrote:
>
> >The web site forgot to mention the prize money that
> >changes hands at one of these meets. Thousands
> >of dollars change hands in one afternoon. Unlike
> >amateur radio, these guys are also in it for the money.
> >They do not modulate these beasts on the air and
> >brag of their expertize while getting 40 over S-9 reports
> >from rare DX.
>
> Well for that matter, why don't they just use big dummy loads then to key
> into instead of antennas?  That way, it's legal then and they aren't
> interfering with anyone else.
>
> I'd have no problem with that.
>
> 73,
>
> Jon
> KE9NA
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Second Amendment is NOT about duck hunting!
>
>
> Jon Ogden
>
> jono@enteract.com
> www.qsl.net/ke9na
>
> "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
>
>



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