FWD: Re: [TowerTalk] tilted boom

[Jim Idelson]

See message from suffering patient below. Apparently, there is some confusion 
out there. TES and WTS are equipment ailments; they are not found in humans. 
There are, however, human forms of these conditions:
	1.	Boom Envy:	The inexplicable need for a longer, stronger, straighter boom.
	2.	Tube Envy:	The insatiable desire for larger, more powerful tubes - 
generally in matched pairs.

73,

Jim

PS I will consume no further bandwidth for this thread.

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

FROM: 	 Richard Thorne <rthorne@tcac.net>
TO: 	 Jim Idelson <k1ir@designet.com>
DATE: 	 Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:50:14 -0600

RE: 	 Re: [TowerTalk] tilted boom

Ah yes.  My name is Rich and I have WTS.  But I solved the problem with an Acom 
2000a.

Jim Idelson wrote:

> Tilted boom; tilted elements . . . its an age old question.
>
> While modeling shows imperceptible changes in performance when those elements
> are a bit out of whack, the practical impact on station performance is 
actually
> quite substantial. Experience clearly shows that operators who believe their
> booms are straight and their elements are in the perfect plane always get
> through the pileups first.
>
> There are two categories of solutions to this problem - elimination and
> mitigation:
> 1.      Elimination - Straighten the boom.
> 2.      Mitigation - a) Avoid eye contact with the boom. Operating only in 
darkness
> is helpful here. b) Get a friend to tell you he fixed it for you, and it's 
now
> straight as an arrow.
>
> Tilted Element Syndrome [TES] is closely related to Weak Tube Syndrome [WTS}, 
a
> condition in which an amplifier specified for full legal output - 1500 watts 
-
> actually only hits 1477 watts. Field testing of these amplifiers indicates 
that
> they are actually 10-30dB down in the pileups from amps owned by friends that
> are cranking out the full 1500.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim K1IR
>
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73,

Richard Thorne
ARS N5ZC (ex KA2DSY, N2BHP, WB5M)
Remote Control Airplanes:  AMA# 657062
http://www.tcac.net/~rthorne/

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