[Amps] "I gotta tell this"

[Gary Smith]

When you can read the newspaper from the (near white) light being generated 
by FOUR 3-500 z's, there is some serious RF horsepower being generated. I 
did not own this beast, actually I didn't want to get to close to it. 
Recall there was a safety glass window installed so the tubes could be seen, 
said window had a non metallic safety screen covering it in case the glass 
failed.
Cannot recall who owned this "shack warmer" but it was in Sacramento, CA in 
the late `sixties.
`Spose its fair to say that when he called "CQ dx, the world heard him.
73,
Gary...wa6fgi


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "k7fm" <k7fm at teleport.com>
To: <g3rzp at g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>; <dezrat at copper.net>; "carl s." 
<carlseye at tampabay.rr.com>; "N7HIY" <N7HIY at comcast.net>; <jkearman at att.net>; 
<amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] "I gotta tell this"


> >If one calls 10 times in a pile up to work the DX with 100 watts, and 
> >once
>>with a kW
>
> Since I like 75 meters dx, I operate mostly in the winter.  In that case,
> the waste heat generated simply supplies heat to the occupied room.  If I
> was operating qrp, I would need supplemental heat.  The more inefficient 
> the
> amplifier is, the more heat that is supplied to the room and the less the
> normal heat is required.
>
> Have you ever seen a cat want to curl up on top of a qrp rig?  Cats love
> vacuum tubes.  They especially love DX-100s and SX-101s.  I have seen one
> high power amplifier that would lift the cat off the cabinet when it was
> fired up, but that is another story.
>
> 73,  Colin  K7FM
>
> Note to Peter:  You fit right at the top of the rationalization expert
> chart.  Right up there with Picasso, who told his mistress he left the 
> dust
> on his paintings to protect them from ultraviolet rays. Good work.
>
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