That's a pretty cool description of the antenna melting down... :)
73s and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z/NNR0DC)
https://www.nk7z.net
ARRL Technical Specialist
ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL OOC for Oregon
On 12/6/18 10:27 AM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
In Bill Orr's book, there is a particularly vivid description
Hmmm ... Dad let me put a 40 W 10 m AM rig in the family car, Gonset RX
converter up front, TX in trunk, PE103 dynamotor under hood next to
battery, SS whip on rear bumper mount. On a date at the drive-in movie,
she asked how it worked. I pressed PTT and gave a test transmission. I
was
In Bill Orr's book, there is a particularly vivid description of the
corona. The part of the description that I particularly enjoyed was this,
"...the elements of the doomed beam glowed with the heat of the arc and
turned incandescent at the tips. Large molten chunks of aluminum dropped to
the
3 matches
Mail list logo
