[SixClub] MY NEW AMPLIFIER

[KA2AEV at aol.com]

Whats really scary is the fact that people are actually admitting to public 
 about 
hearing voices in their heads
 
 
In a message dated 2/13/2012 4:26:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
TwelveVDC at aol.com writes:

LMFAOAPOM!
Best thread in months.
-Pete /  NL7XM


>> On 2/13/2012 9:39 AM, Mike Andrews  wrote:
>>> Burning the ends off the elements is only a start when  you
>>> go QRO. You might start hearing voices, too, as some of  my
>>> acquaintances  have:<http://mikea.ath.cx/VOICE-OF-GOD.html>  and
>>>  <http://mikea.ath.cx/moth-arc.html>  tell about this problem. I  grant
>>> that these were in the SWBC band, which is HF, and up  above HF is where
>>> things get even tricksier.
>>  
>> I take it you've seen "Down Periscope" too?
> 
> Not  that I can recall, actually, but Chris and my correspondent at the
>  Beeb both swear these things happened to them. So what happened in  "Down
> 'Scope"?
> 
>>> Or you could just use it to  heat your water for tea or coffee, taking
>>> due care to keep  things from getting too dry or too sparky:
>>>  <http://mikea.ath.cx/coffee-maker.html>.
>> 
>>  *CAUTION* now days they say diathermy isn't good for you and they have  
>> these RF exposure limits. If you think your wife has dinner ready  
you've 
>> been sitting there too long.
> 
> I remember  having my sinuses diathermied when I had horrible and 
> intractable  infection. I don't think it affected my intelligence all
> that much,  but How About Them Aggies?!?!
> 
> A friend in medical electronics  tells a story about some experimental RF
> widget or other used in a  surgery. It had worked fine on mice, rats, 
cats,
> dogs, and chunks of  cadaver, but this was the first trial on a human. It
> wasn't doing what  they wanted. They upped the ante -- and the RF power.
> Still no go. One  more turn on the pot, and someone asked where the smell 
of
> frying  bacon was coming from.
> 
> They had liquefied all the fat cells  in the patient's belly fat. Huge, 
huge
> lawsuit. Their insurance  company was Not Pleased.
> 
>> BTW this has some good side  effects too.  To meet the exposure limits 
>> you will likely  have to put up a taller tower...much taller and you'll 
>> need a  much larger lot.
>> For instance with a pair of long boom yagis on  2-meters at 130 feet in 
>> the center of one square acre the maximum  I could run based on the 
>> distance to the neighbors was only a few  hundred watts.  You get that 
>> quadature array on six fed with  a YC156 or pair of 4CX3000's and you'll 
>> have to fence off the  back 40 for the 200 foot tower. Don't forget to 
>> make them loop  feed antennas (LFAs) to prevent erosion caused by those 
>> electrons  skidding off the ends of the elements.  Let's see... A pair 
of  
>> 4CX3000s is technically capable of roughtly 13 KW into a 20 db  array 
>> gives us 1.3 Mw ERP.  Any one have the RF exposure  calculator? I 
haven't 
>> reloaded it since this computer crashed  last fall.
> 
> Keep running those QRO++ rigs and your computer  won't ever come up for 
more
> than a few minutes at a time. What are you  going to do for feedline? Open
> quads, a la LaPort? I have read stories  of birds flying into those on one
> high-power MW station (WLW?  Megawatt, Blaw-Knox tower, water cooling) and
> coming out as a ball of  plasma on the other side. I believe it.
> 
>> Late at night, at  least on 2-meters you just tune for maximum 
brilliance 
>> in your  neighbors fluorescent lights. If the direction indicator gives 
>>  out on your rotator you just look to see which direction the glow runs. 
 
>> Also if you have one of those neighbors who claims to be allergic  to 
>> cell phone radiation, you can tell them this will over ride it  and 
>> prevent it from bothering and not to worry about those  strange burns. 
It 
>> must have been caused by the sun shining that  one day last week. (I 
live 
>> in Michigan)
> 
> With  that pair of 4CX3000 and the 20 dB gain antenna above, you can tell
>  where it's pointed by saying "FOUUUUUUUUR" into the mike and looking  for
> the aurora! Add elevation controls, and you'll be able to track  and zap 
> stray animals and blow the sand-state stuff in police  cruisers.
> 
>> I'd also suggest that if your coffee doesn't  get cold while setting on 
>> the desk, it might be time to examine  your grounding and shielding 
systems.
> 
> Good points, all of  them. A friend used to have a very small fluorescent
> Ty-Rapped to his  2m J-pole. It got reported as a UFO more than once. But
> he was running  barefoot. 
> 
> Mike Andrews, W5EGO
>  mikea at mikea.ath.cx
> Tired old sysadmin  
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