Ah yes, Hashafisti Scratchi. It's amazing how politically incorrect he was. You could never get away with that nowadays.
Al N1AL On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:23 -0800, Vic K2VCO wrote: > This sounds like a story by Hashafisti Scratchi or Larsen E. Rapp. > > On 1/25/2011 12:52 PM, Alan Bloom wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 08:04 -0800, Vic K2VCO wrote: > > ... > >> Speaking of dollars per watt, I'm presently using a homebrew pair of 813's > >> which produce > >> 800 watts (QSK but no 6M) and I have less than $400 into it. $0.50 dollars > >> per watt. > > > > Many years ago I heard of a guy who built a linear amplifier using a > > single 811. He ran it in grounded grid with tons of negative RF > > feedback (grid lifted way off RF ground with a small capacitor) so that > > the gain was only a little greater than unity. > > > > As I recall, the input RF driving power was 900 watts and the output > > power was 1000W, the other 100W being supplied by the 811. But since > > amplifiers are rated by output power rather than [output - input] power, > > his dollars per watt came out at something like 5 cents/watt. :=) > > > > Al N1AL > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
