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Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in 
news:hr2546pkfkocgekua52r7f02l6lib11ih1@4ax.com:

> Skype: JeffLiebermann     AE6KS    831-336-2558
> 

By the way, I'm W4CSC aka KN4IM aka WB4THE aka WA2IWN aka WN2IWH in 1957, I 
was 11...(c;]  In the heyday, I ran a pair of 4-1000A as proper tetrodes in 
a push-pull homebrew linear you could drive with 10 watts to...er, ah...a 
kilowatt, yeah, that's right, a kilowatt....(c;

6200VDC at 950ma....that's about a kilowatt ain't it?  RF messes up my 
math.

I'm much calmer, now.  I still have the monster mobile, Yaesu FT-900 loaded 
into a modified Tentec Hercules II with all the cheap crap removed.  It 
pulls about 120A at 14VDC if the antenna is good.  About 650W to fry nearby 
injection computers and those monster stereos...Power is our friend!

We used to operate a 650W RTTY/Packet/Pactor HF mobile to every hamfest.  A 
regular crew worked 'em all weekend on the road.  Mobile antenna is 15' 
tall homebrew Texas bugcatcher with Henri Allen's biggest coil(s)...160M-
10M.  "Hey, you!  Your antenna is on fire!!", passing cars used to hollar 
at us because of some minor corona around the big capacitor 
hat....Resonance is such a beautiful thing!

We SHOULD be dead, if you listen to the sellphone scare mongers.....RF is 
only dangerous if it burns your fingers....(c;]


-- 
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry