[TAC] To Greg, K8GL

[Hank Kohl]

I heard about K8HIR when I first came to Detroit in '64 .....And rumor had it
that he didn't use RG-8 ..... he used 7/8" or bigger coax for his feedlines.


On 6/5/06, Greg Surma <Greg.Surma at wnem.com> wrote:
> The "urban legend" story had him running cables around his electric
> meter to get free power to power the rig....and of his street light
> dimming whenever he keyed up.
>
> I remember tons of stories about guys running 5-6 KW on 75 meters way
> back when....I wonder how true these stories were.... I can't even get
> the old watt meter above 1100 watts!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tac-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:tac-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Ian Hill
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:43 PM
> To: Thumb (MI) Area Contesters (and DX'ers)
> Subject: Re: [TAC] To Greg, K8GL
>
> I bet you would need three phase power to run something like that...lol
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Surma" <Greg.Surma at wnem.com>
> To: "Thumb (MI) Area Contesters (and DX'ers)" <tac at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:14 AM
> Subject: RE: [TAC] To Greg, K8GL
>
>
> Yow!  Do you remember K8HIR who lived in the Detroit area? Supposedly he
> ran 18 Kw....I had a friend of mine who was one of the ops there in some
> multi-singles. K8HIR ran some modest 3 el beams up around 80' or
> so...and had a pair of phased Hy-Towers on 75.  Supposedly some ZD7 told
> K8HIR that .."...You are the loudest signal on 75 meters that I have
> ever heard on ANY band".  Of this urban legends are made!
>
> Nope...only running LK500's here....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tac-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:tac-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Kurt Meyers
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 7:25 PM
> To: TAC
> Subject: [TAC] To Greg, K8GL
>
> Hi, Greg:
>     Is it true you were testing a new amplifier when that house in
> Saginaw blew up?
>
> 73, Kurt W8IQ
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