[Boatanchors] TCS tx Output

[rbethman]

Unfortunately, I found the "Institutions of Higher Learning" to be 
severely lacking.

Many have been taken over by Department heads that simply state, "Do it 
this way - because I said so!"

The factual matter that it wouldn't allow it to be worked on had NO bearing.

So listing degrees is rather meaningless!

I learned far more from the "Technical" folks that ACTUALLY worked with 
and on the pieces of equipment.  The PRC-25s, PRC-77s, and other 
backpack radios are a total compromise to achieve a 40Mc frequency 
coverage.  Hence the 1 to 2 watt output.

If you intend to use such on 6 meters, the align it for the power output 
that you can "safely" get and dissipate.

I found its "practical" use in the middle of no where to be very limited.

I put my "theory" into practical use from the technical side.

Building a power supply to provide the required voltages and currents is 
usually the easy part.  Sometimes the impedance matching to what "we" 
use for antennas is a whole different matter.

It is like those that are stuck on the BC-939 as an Antenna Tuner.  That 
"may" be what the dataplate says, reality is something altogether different!

N0DGN

On 5/7/2011 1:36 PM, Carl wrote:
> Id say that the huge majority of conversions were done by ex GI's of many countries upon returning home. Some were prior hams, others joined in the post war frenzy having met them in the service; therefore the work done is all over the place.
> That was back when a ham actually knew fairly involved theory and could fix or build things with a minimum of "stress".
>
> Others were new ham teenagers looking to get on the air on the cheap; many continued into an engineering career because of that Command set, BC-348, ART-13 or whatever else they had to modify so it worked to their satisfaction.
>
> These days the stress is in how to connect the coax to a connector and the effort requires a visit to his headshrinker. Some of the biggest whiners on here are fairy young, getting into mil radio long after the fact and could also do with a friendly visit to a medical practitioner....spoiled brats who think everything they say is important and should be adhered to.
>
> Id be interested in knowing the education level of our current crop of crybabies.
>
> They would go into a catonic state if they saw my W2EWL SSB rig
>
> Carl
> KM1H