[AMRadio] Winter

[Todd Carpenter]

Yeah, I wonder how long the tubes would last from a surplus Voice of Russia transmitter? The used to have them that output power was 1 Million watts. Think they would even run idle at 1 KW? Imagine the cw signal strength you could produce.  It gives new meaning to the term "channel master!" Todd, N9YSQ

On Fri Oct 1st, 2010 1:28 PM CDT Bernie Doran wrote:

>we have a power limit?
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>From: "Todd Carpenter" <n9ysq at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Winter
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>> Perhaps the qrm problem can be solved easily. We should just petition the 
>> FCC to allow AM transmissions on bands below 30 meters using 20  KW 
>> carrier. Also, get them to include any future bands lower in frequency 
>> such as 600  meters, etc. Todd N9YSQ
>>
>> On Fri Oct 1st, 2010 9:50 AM CDT D. Chester wrote:
>>
>>>I had the same problem with  my HF-300 rig.  It would happen only
>>>occasionally, but often enough to be annoying, and I kept running out of
>>>fuses.  It went away when I replaced one of the sets of 872-As with 4B32s.
>>>I still have some unused 872s, but I am using the xenon replacements right
>>>now. I must have a bushel of used 4B32s that I picked up back in the late
>>>60s, pulled  from military transmitters that had been taken out of 
>>>service.
>>>Only a couple of them have ever  flashed over, and I promptly threw those
>>>away.
>>>
>>>3705 kc/s has been active the past few nights, usually after 0400 GMT.  I
>>>also plan to try to stir up a little activity below 3700 as winter
>>>progresses, particularly if the group near 3705 starts to get too large. 
>>>If
>>>a QSO grows to more than 4 participants, I tend to break away and start a
>>>new one, unless the topic of conversation is enthralling or else I am
>>>working on a bench project and each round is taking long enough that I can
>>>do some serious work between transmissions.
>>>
>>>Don k4kyv
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