[Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
Gary Smith
wa6fgi at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 30 13:52:18 PST 2011
My last rip snorter: `70 type 1 Veedub, 2137cc, BIG valve heads 1 5/8's Berg exhaust, pair of 42 MM Delorto's, all of the usual goodies. Discs on the front, large fast back drums on the rear. BIG FAT tires on the back, skinny one's on `70 vintage Riviera mags.
Shade over 14 in the quarter, was fun to hunt down teenager's in Mom and Dad's LS 400's or Q-45's. Whip'em to the ground up to 75 or so. After that, that old and famous adage took over.
That was soo much fun not so long ago, mid `90's.
My wife (n6rxz) had a license plate frame made up that read "53 year old teenager at the wheel".
Still have *real* pix and many fond memories of that tiny yellow terror.
Back to the thread,
73, thanks for letting me wander.
Gary...wa6fgi
(goin' on 70 and I can still rock.)
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl
To: Fuqua, Bill L ; amps at contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
I took the easy way out and put a complete Corvair 4 carb Spyder setup in a
60 Bug in 67 when I got married and sold the 64 GTO B/FX machine for a house
downpayment. What a sleeper at the stoplight drags.Went thru a few other
strange combinations( Chevy powered AH-3000, Jag, etc) before affording a 70
Chevelle LS-6 HT
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fuqua, Bill L" <wlfuqu00 at uky.edu>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
> You know, another thing about hot roding and amplifiers. Building or
> buying an 500 or 600 watt amplifier is not so expensive the price is not
> linear.
> I have a 1970 VW I restored and the first 150 HP is not so bad, fairly
> easy, the next 50 is really costly and then you have to think about heavy
> duty transaxles,
> and start worrying about things breaking. But it is fun to drive. Bonnie
> and I went on dates in it in the 70s before we got married.
> An amplifier with a pair of 572Bs or 4x 811As is not so bad but when you
> move up to 8877 or other large tubes it is very costly unless you go to
> the junk yard and get some
> used parts. OOPS that should have been go to hamfest. There are Russian
> tubes. but larger transformers and vacuum variable capacitors etc get
> costly.
>
> 73
> Bill wa4lav
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Carl [km1h at jeremy.mv.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:26 PM
> To: Fuqua, Bill L; Gary Smith; amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] H i Power and hearing footsteps
>
> 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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