[Amps] 5 kw amps -- why?

[Barry Kirkwood]

Well, I manged to fry a "1500W "  commercially made ferrite balun with 
significantly less than 1500kW out, let alone 3kW plus.
Since then have lived in peace with my homebrew coax solenoid baluns.
73
Barry



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Barry Kirkwood PhD ZL1DD
Signal Hill Homestay
66 Cory Road
Palm Beach
Waiheke Island 1240
NEW ZEALAND
ph/fax 64-9-372-5161
www.waiheke.co.nz/signal.htm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Manthe" <n9aa at arrl.net>
To: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>; <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 5 kw amps -- why?


> Some hams like plenty of headroom. ;)
>
> I know a guy who literally vaporized a legal limit balun on his dipole by 
> accidentally running 85 watts into his Emtron DX-3, which produced over 
> 3000 watts output (pinned his Bird, so he really doesn't know how much 
> over) with that input power. He went outside to see little smoking pieces 
> of the balun all over his yard. I figured that that was enough "headroom".
>
> It should be obvious to anyone who's been an amateur long enough that 
> there are certain guys who "need" $13,000 rigs and 3, 5 or 8KW amplifiers. 
> I don't know why, but I do know what Freud would say.
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
> To: <amps at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:12 PM
> Subject: [Amps] 5 kw amps -- why?
>
>
>> After reading a review in Eham today for the Emtron DX4 (2 4cx2500s) by 
>> an American ham, I have a question:  Is there any kind of operating at 
>> the 1.5 kw pep limit that would necessitate an amp with this kind of 
>> plate dissipation?  Sounded to me like an invitation to have the FCC park 
>> a van in front of your house.
>>
>> tks
>> Rob/K5UJ
>>
>>
>
>
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