I did that a number of years ago. I was working for Raytheon Corp. in southern California - we had a 1 Kw linear amplifier made for the military - fed into a dummy load.
One day, I tuned the matching receiver to a part of the 40 meter ham band and listened for a while to some nearby conversation. Seems there was a ham who lived nearby so, using the 1 Kw amplifier on the dummy load, I called him - he replied suggesting we QSY elsewhere and requested I zero him when I tuned to the frequency he was on ... I asked him to zero to me when he found me as the equipment I was using didn't have variable frequency tuning as we know it. What I was using was a US Army communications trailer mounted HF station with two receivers, and an exciter with optional 1 Kw and 10 Kw linear amplifiers available. The system tuned from 2.00000 Mc to 29.99999 Mc in 10 cycle steps. The external power amplifiers were auto-tuned too. The power acceptable was 120/208, 50-400 cycle three phase. The QSO was brief but enjoyable. Neil McKie - WA6KLA W8DZN wrote: > > How about turning up your power to see how far you can have a QSO > on a Dummy Load? > > Kenneth P. Cook Jr., W8DZN > River View Estates Lot 46 > Bucyrus, Ohio 44820 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Virden Clark Beckman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 8:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] good reading > > Is there anybody with 100 percent? > Willing to admit it? > > Here 17 of 20. > -- > 73...Clark Beckman N8PZD > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
