[Amps] Serious signals.

[Gary Smith]

At this Naval radio station site when it was a fully manned site many years ago (Dixon, Ca NARS) where they ran REAL power, 250-500 k Po out.  Nothing else to do in the afternoon so I suggested that one of the radiomen tune one of the transmitters (it was tuned with BCD switches, xmtr was made by Continental Electronics) to Ch 11 CB band. All of us giggling like fools, as the fellow spoke into the mike and told  everyone out there to be quiet, I do believe THAT transmission cleared the air on the CB bands in the Sacramento valley and other surrounding areas for quite a while.

Those xmtrs had tubes with handles on them, I watched in real awe as I looked on as one was disassembled so some of the burned up elements could be replaced.

RF is fun stuff.

Gary...wa6fgi
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Herzog 
  To: Ham-amps 
  Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 4:36 PM
  Subject: [Amps] Serious signals.


  Reminds me of the time I could have legally run 20 KW out from a station 
    built for the Emir of Qatar.  I didn't hear anything worth 
  answering..boring.
  Unlimited power and no frequency limitations.
      Another such station was at Redstone
  arsenal, unlimited power and frequencies.  However if they swept thru 
  the TV frequencies during the day-soaps, they got hell when they got home..
      I think every country must some some such station license.  K2LB
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  Well 5 KW probably is what the driver produce.
  During the CQ 160m contest last year there was
  this EU station that had his "main" amp out of
  service and he was using the back up amp that
  "only" did produce 12 KW.

  / Jim SM2EKM
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