[Amps] schamatis 160 meter amp using 3cx3000a7

[Patrick A. Thompson Sr.]

Sorry, but this stuff is just so much slang.

I've also been a ham since '64 and I've been keeping broadcast 
transmitters on-air since '74 and I've never heard or seen the phrase 3 
by 3 or 4 by 5 used to mean "elements by dissipation".

It may known per region or clique but it's still imprecise and still slang.

I suggest taking enough time to type something that may be correctly 
deciphered without guess work.

Pat
wa4tuk

Tom W8JI wrote:
>> Sounds like CB jargon to me.
>> In my 45 years I never heard hams use terms like that.
>> I guess I have  a three-by-two hundred  sitting in my 
>> basement.
> 
> FYI
> 
> Hams have been calling 3CX3000's 3 by 3's since the 60's or 
> 70's.
> 
> 4 by 5's and  4 by 1's (for 4-1000A's) are both common terms 
> also.
> 
> 73 Tom 
> 
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