[Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps

Carl km1h at jeremy.mv.com
Sun Jan 30 10:26:43 PST 2011


Stroker McGurk
http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/hrdp_9809_stroker_mcgurk_cartoon_series/index.html

And with flathead V8 Fords $5 at the boneyard it was normal to bore to water 
and sleeve, get a few races and then get another block when the 3 main 
bearing webbing let loose when you wound it past 4500 rpm

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00 at uky.edu>
To: "Gary Smith" <wa6fgi at sbcglobal.net>; <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps


>   In the old days stock car drivers usually got their nick names not from 
> their successes but from their mistakes. I knew a guy called Fly Wheel 
> McGuire in Nashville. He got the great idea that if he used a heavier 
> flywheel he would be able to beat the other cars. It was the opposite. He 
> got his nickname from the other drivers. Another was Stroker McGurt. He 
> bored and stroked his engines until the cylinder walls were so thin that 
> his engine blew up.  Well in racing that last 1 percent of power counts 
> but in radio it is not worth pushing all and manybe a little more from an 
> amplifier because those last few watts may end up costing a great deal for 
> a fraction of a dB increase in output.  Another point, when you do push it 
> just that little bit, it produces loads of splatter that affects the hams 
> around your frequency, just like flying engine parts, and oil on the track 
> may affect other racers.
>
> 73
> Bill wa4lav
>
> ________________________________________
> From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [amps-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf 
> Of Gary Smith [wa6fgi at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 8:44 AM
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
>
> Watts from amps and cubic inch displacement from big block V-8's: there's 
> nothing like more of `em to get the job done.
> 3's and such,
> Gary...wa6fgi
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Roger (Sub1)
>  To: amps at contesting.com
>  Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:09 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
>
>
>  On 1/29/2011 9:30 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
>  > Football talks about down rcvrs (men, not radios) "hearing footsteps." 
> Great phrase if u know what it means.
>  >
>  > Like the majority of usa born hams (that is, old), I am hearing 
> footsteps.....  likely one more sunspot peak (if it ever comes!), likely 
> no more Yemen DXpeditions (or fill in your needs), likely this rig is the 
> last big one I buy, and so on and on.
>  >
>  > Then, a nice amp makes even more sense.  There is nothing like, "got em 
> on  the first call" when that REALLY happens.  73 to all down 
> rcvrs........
>  I'd add,  After listening to a pileup trying for 5 minutes and no one
>  makes it. THEN you get 'em on the first call.
>
>  73
>
>  Roger (K8RI)
>  > Charles Harpole k4vud at hotmail.com
>  >
>  >
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