Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

I mean, none of these kids will ever know the excitement of loading up
a 100 watt light bulb as a dummy load and working a ham 100 miles away
by accident. :)



None of them will have the experience of holding a lit 40W flourescent tube
standing in the beam path of my '67 VW campmobile's stacked 4-element 2M
Cushcrafts fed with the modified Gonset power amp's 4CX250B running 800W on
2M FM, back when there was ONE repeater over a hundred miles
away....either. We figured around 9 to 10KW ERP....Troposcatter anyone?

I worked a guy in Arizona on 146.52 simplex from the top of Paris Mountain
in Greenville, SC, with it...(c; He was running his moonbounce station
around 30KW ERP at the time...4 stacked KLM 15 element yagis and a kilowatt
GE FM amp. Nice station for 2M.

The Gonset had a 4X150 in it when I got it. We built it a voltage doubler
to raise the plate up for the 250B and put newfangled silicon transistors
in the power switcher for more amps. Man that was a nice amp....useless
today.

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