[TowerTalk] Tower power

[Jim Lux]

At 10:05 PM 3/31/2006, K8RI on Tower talk wrote:



> > If I put two on one side, will that give me 220V for the amp?
>
>Like most circuits I'd assume you'd need two in series to double the
>voltage, but as they operate in the mircowave region the antenna placement
>would be critical for proper phasing.  Now would you use two in series on
>transmit and then two in parallel for receive, or would they have to
>increase the 60 cycle modulation to get more power?

You'd just need a suitable flux capacitor to accomodate the reactive power 
flow for phasing.