Yup, that number sounds vaguely familiar. We didn't see the external stuff including the antennas except we borrowed the turbine power plant for testing the equipment.
When that power plant fired up, it really screamed - you could hear it several blocks away. Neil Vincent McKever wrote: > > Neil, > > Sounds like and TSC-38 Communications Van. Don't forget the > antenna for that 10 KW was 500 foot sloping Vee beam. > > Vincent > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neil McKie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 12:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] good reading > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
