[Amps] testing the biggest one

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 8/2/2013 5:20 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
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> On Fri,  2 Aug 2013 13:09:56 -0600, K5PRO wrote:
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>> . I challenge the same pundits to come up with a superior way to generate RF power. Maybe in the sun?
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> REPLY:
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> How about the Internet? Seriously, the days of super power broadcast
> transmitters are coming to a close. WiFi or its equivalent and streaming
> content are spelling the doom of broadcasting as we have known it for
> decades. We're not there yet, it is on the horizon.
>

The Internet is too fragile and is at the mercy of the weather and man 
made disasters.  While it is working it's great, but nature or vandals 
could take out large portions.  We depend on our ISPs, they depend on 
the trunklines.

73

Roger (K8RI)


> Some applications such as industrial heating and radar will still require
> vacuum tube technology for the foreseeable future, but there are lots of
> people working on technologies to change that, too.
>
> 50 years ago who would have guessed that a lab curiosity, the transistor,

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> would have changed our lives so dramatically?
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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