[Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Wire Options

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hey Robert,

Now who had such luxuries as a SWR meter or a Watt meter when we were 
teenagers? Those 100 MW transmitters we built, borrowed, kind of - sort of 
temporarily swiped for a "school project" or unknowingly souped up to 250 
MW, we did not have any reliable way of checking the transmitter power. At 
least I did not.

But since most of us were not riding our bicycles to the local AM stations 
and soliciting air time Ad space, I doubt we bothered or threatened the 
commercial marketing of anyone. Although some of us did graduate to 
underground radio and a few even rose to national fame!

I wonder how many MW DX'ers we got all excited when they tuned us in and 
thought they had just heard some new flea power AM station! (chuckle!)


Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
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HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <w9ran at oneradio.net>
To: "wolfbob" <wolfbob at csnsys.com>
Cc: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Speaker Wire Options


> wolfbob wrote:
>> Odds are that it is a 50 ft of two conductor with 4 pins.
> That's what it looks like to me, a 50 ft. roll of 2-conductor cable, and 
> per the resistance chart on the link I sent previously, 12 gauge should be 
> good for up to 90 ft. runs to an 8 ohm load.  If you've priced wire in the 
> hardware store lately, this is a great deal!    Another good durable 
> solution is to buy heavy duty extension cords when they're on sale and 
> chop the ends off.  This solved an ongoing problem for a buddy whose mutt 
> seemed to think his speaker wires were chew toys.
>
> As for admitting to playing records over 100 milliwatt Part 15 
> transmitters, I can safely say I did that.    And......(checking statute 
> of limitations here....)...I may have even considered 100 milliwatts to be 
> more of a "suggestion" than an absolute limit ;-)
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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