[AMPS] FS:ARRL-002 Hipersil Xfmr

[Rich...]

>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:45:16 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>€ A Dahl 46- pounder is suitable for an amplifier that will supply 8k pep 
>>to the feedline in SSB mode.  However, it is not ethical to transmit more 
>>RF than is needed to communicate.  
>
>It's poor amateur practice, too. And in the U.S. I believe it is
>illegal to run more than 1500W PEP output on the amateur bands, even
>if you claim you need the extra power. (Or were provoked by sociopaths
>:-) So seriously, Rich, given the statement you made above and the
>account on your web page of your use (on 40m) of a 20 dB amplifier
>(1200V peak), wouldn't one be led to believe that you are not an
>ethical person?
>
€  As you may have guessed, I like to discuss unboring topics.  Politics, 
scams, religious cults, psychohistory, whatever.  C. 1980, I was getting 
jammed by various True Believers on the 40m daytime soap known as the 
"Combat Zone" (7250 - 7260 KHz).  Since the FCC apparently wasn't going 
to do anything about what was undoubtedly the most entertaining daytime 
variety show on 40m, I decided to build something that was a bit more 
difficult to jam.  I figured it would take about 10db more steam to 
accomplish this than my 10db gain SB-220 provided.  Coming up with a 
suitable design for a 20db amplifier took a couple of months.  This 
involved discussing the project on the Combat Zone.  Construction took 
another few months.  Debugging took c. another month.  I quickly learned 
that a 20db amplifier does not prevent sociopaths from jamming the people 
one is trying to communicate with.  Thus, the 20db amplifier (a.k.a., the 
"Plywood Box) was not much more than a fun project.  
-  Years later I discovered that one of the employees at the FCC 
monitoring station in Livermore wrote poetry about the shenanigans that 
went on.  A friend in the FCC sent me a copy.  I still have it.  
Curiously, the largest group of complainants about my 20db amplifier to 
the FCC was contest stations who were rumoured to also run "tetrodes with 
handles".  

>I'm curious, since you appear to make statements about using more
>power than necessary fairly frequently. 

€  I used enough power to overcome the jammers when they were doing their 
thing.  When they were not jamming and the propagation was ok, I ran 
140w-pep.

>Are such statements made tongue-in-cheek?
>
€  No.  The Plywood Box was sold after I had a brain glitch.  During the 
next DX contest, you might hear it.  

cheers, Doug

-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734,AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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