[Elecraft] Are you satisfied with your K3?

[Phil Hystad]

I thought everyone knew about 100-watt light bulbs.  Back in my Novice days about 50 years ago, it seemed that all of my other Novice friends all used 100-watt light bulbs as a dummy load for test & tune-up.  And, we got used to the idea of hearing each other in the area because we all operated with the around the same frequency cut crystals so we often all ended up on the same spot on 40 meters.  When I was a Novice, 40 meters was the only band I worked since those were the only crystals I had.  And, I am not an old-timer.  An old-timer is always someone older than me -- Always!

73, phil, K7PEH



On Dec 7, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Robert G. Strickland <rcrgs at verizon.net> wrote:

> Wayne...
> 
> Another demo of the well known fact that a 50-100w light bulb load with filament aligned with the correct magnetic field declination for the particular QTH will entrain polar field ions and function as a 4-el monobander. People are always forgetting this effect and spending money on big yagis, trying to recapture the light bulb ion effect. Old timers are useful for keeping this type of info available for new hams.
> 
> ...robert
> 
> On 12/7/2012 03:53, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> 
>> In my teens, freshly licensed, I had a Heath DX20 and a Hallicrafters S38D. The
>> highlight of my first few months was working a guy 2000 miles away on a 60-W-lamp
>> dummy load and 6' of leaky RG58. I later upgraded to a Heath HW-16 and had a blast.
>> 
> 
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Robert G. Strickland, PhD, ABPH - KE2WY
> rcrgs at verizon.net
> Syracuse, New York, USA
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