[RTTY] A good weekend for bad propagation

[Jack West]

Hi Bill,

Sorry to hear about your casualty. Fifty-seven years of ham radio
operating has taught me two things:

1. You can't screw something up unless you are doing something.

2. To burn something up normally requires high power.

I have a short story for you, Bill. Many years ago, in a 160 CW
contest, I was running high power via a home brew high power amp
which was built into a rack which was partially open in the back.
Around mid-night, I started getting loud pops and a big fireballs
at full output power, thus blowing fuses. 

I could not operate the amp and look in back for the problem at the
same time so..... I woke my XYL out of a sound sleep to come and "look"
for me. So she stood there in her nighty, holding a flashlight, about
half asleep. When it went bang and the fireball jumped out, 
believe me she was FULLY awake! She successfully spotted the trouble 
spot for me and I fixed it. Aren't XYL's handy to have around in a 
ham radio contest?

Hope you get your radio home soon.
73 de
Jack / W7LD / "Lucky Dog"
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>
Cc: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] A good weekend for bad propagation


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> 
> On 3/19/2012 3:10 PM, Gary AL9A wrote:
>> Bill,
>>
>> Ouch!  Were you driving an amp or running the 7600 barefoot full tilt?
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary AL9A 
> 
> REPLY:
> 
> 
> U had been driving an amp, but that's not when it died. It was working 
> fine when I QRT'd for a minute to get a cup of coffee and when I came 
> back, on the next TX, nothing. The failure was completely silent - no 
> pops, bangs or other signs of malfeasance. The output meter just stayed 
> on zero.
> 
> My amp only needs 45 watts for full output so overheating should not 
> have been an issue. I'll be curious to know what the factory says happened.
> 
> 73, Bill W6WRT
> 
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