[Amps] How about this furnace?

[m.ford]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com>
To: "m.ford" <k1ern at direcway.com>
Cc: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] How about this furnace?


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> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> At 09:34 PM 1/1/2006, m.ford wrote:
>>During the Katrina disaster there was a noticable increase in both official
>>and morale traffic on the af mars phonepatch net.
>>
>>See for yourself at http://www.svs.net/afa1en/scoreb5.htm
>>
>>According to my log about forty percent of my traffic was with aircraft
>>located "on the other side of the world" and doing their darndest to bring
>>assetts back home.
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> OK, but we have a different definition of "emergency" traffic. I was 
> using emergency in the sense of "there's been a major disaster, 
> people are dying, send help now".

I think a C-5 load of trucks coming across the Indian Ocean looking
for landing wx and fuel at Lajes so it can reach the disaster area might
rise to that level. I also think they like hams with big amplifiers.

> You were using it in the sense of  "Hi mom, Suzie, the kids and I are all ok".

They got families too.

> For the kind I was talking about, 100 watts from a battery powered 
> rig is sufficient.

If I were lost in the woods, I would build the biggest fire I could.

> 
> 73, Bill W6WRT
> 
Mike k1ern