Am I the only one bothered by seeing ads for 5 KW amplifiers? 73, Drew K3PA ------------ You're not the only one bothered Drew. I had a VERY good friend of mine (now a SK) that at one time purchased a HUGE 6M amplifier from another very technically adept ham (also SK now) that had built this 6M behemoth. I think it was something approaching 9 or 10kW running a pole pig transformer for part of the power supply. Maybe it was even larger than 10kW?
I didn't ask too many questions. Anyways when I laid eyes on it and got the run down I made some comments about legality or whatever. We soon were no longer really friends. Everyone is responsible for their own actions and I just didn't want to be associated with a guy running that kind of power. I would have the same reaction if I showed up at some cool M/M and found out they were running 5kW to win contests. I would just politely excuse myself and not come back. The "forwarder" of this for sale ad you refer to for a VE3 friend had a huge long thread on the amps-list about some 12kW amp that was being built and got a little bit of rebuttal for it, but the consensus was for us opposed to it just be quiet about it (ie: stfu) so I stopped reading the amps-list. Shame as there are some very talented folks on that list that will forget more about amps than I'll ever hope to know. I just can't be bombarded with that kind of stuff on a weekly basis. YMMV Mike VE9AA Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
