[Amps] RE : who needs it? Henry 8K

[R L Measures]

On May 23, 2006, at 12:38 PM, W0UN -- John Brosnahan wrote:

> At 11:14 AM 5/23/2006, R L Measures wrote:
>> Doug -- When I was occasionally running the Plywood Box 20db
>> amplifier on 40m, and I was answering questions about it over the
>> air, the FCC received a number of letters about me from
>> complainants.  Thanks to an FCC employee who happened to be a Ham who
>> guest operated at multi-multi contest stations, I learned that the
>> majority of these letters came from owners of contest stations whose
>> amplifiers used tubes that had handles.
>> - cheerz
>
>
> Rich--
>
> This sounds like a cheap shot to me.

It happened, John.

> I have been contesting since 1959
> and have operated at many multi-multi stations as well as some  
> single-op
> stations and I have yet to see any CONTEST station with "tubes that  
> had
> handles".   Now I cannot speak for California since I have never  
> operated a
> contest there, and I do know some USA DXer stations that have big  
> tubes,
> but for the life of me, I can't think of a single, serious  
> contester in the USA
> that has tubes with handles.
>
> What I do know is that a lot of multi-multi contest station owners are
> absolutely adamant about keeping within the 1500 watt limit.
>
> --John  W0UN
>
>
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