[Amps] Hmmmm...Legal limit boiled the oil in the cantena

[Roger]

Jeff Carter wrote:
> My favorite part was the following line:
>
> "I hold a general class ticket so please buy with confidence."
>   
I had one of those wayyyy back in 61, of course back then you had the 
choice of Novice or General. Anything else mean you'd been around a 
longggg time.
> I never held a General ticket (went straight to Extra),
Just listen to the magic from them on 3.895 <:-))
>  so maybe
> there's some magic in the General Class ticket that makes one
> instantly trustworthy and I just missed out on it.
>
>   
To me they were all magic although I have to admit I was probably the 
most active as a Novice and as Advanced. I had a long stretch starting 
around 1980 where I was seldom on the air.
OTOH I've been on the air more in the last week since the new amp 
arrived using nothing but center fed sloping half wave dipoles on 75 and 
40.  None of the big antennas are hooked up. AND to top it off, today I 
discovered a really strong, broad signal moving around roughly between 
7.145 and 7.158. It's running 20 to 30 over 9 and about 15 KHz wide at 
the 3db points.

"I think" it's one of those "plug your phone into your computer" setups 
which are gaining a reputation for terrible RFI, but I'm going to have 
to get the local RFI group to help hunt it down. One of those things can 
be 20 over 9 from a block away. I know it's louder on the sloper than on 
the vertical.

At any rate, with the warm weather I tried my first climb and made it to 
70 feet (with full body harness and fall arrest gear) before deciding to 
call it a day. I didn't have my work boots (with steel shanks)  on and 
these shoes have very deep groves in the soles which makes it more work 
to climb, but if I can give it a try about 3 times a week I should make 
it to the top and be able to stay long enough to get something useful done.

Well, time to get on the phone and start hunting.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Jeff/KD4RBG
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Roger <sub1 at rogerhalstead.com> wrote:
>   
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140396998669&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
>>
>> Hmmm
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger (K8RI)
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