Re: geography nerds?

On 24 Feb 2008 14:55:20 -0500, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> I once used an old one kilowatt ham radio amplifier to amplify the
>>> audio frequencies from my stereo.  I ran its output into a big
>>> coil.  Mozart then started coming from *everywhere*: Radios and TVs
>>> that were turned off, speakers not connected to anything, telephone
>>> handsets that were unplugged, out of my vacuum cleaner hose, etc.
>>> I could even hear it, very faintly, from a ball bearing I stuck in
>>> my ear.
>
>> May i point out that the FCC has enforecment powers in cases of
>> Interference With Other Services.
>
>> If you didn't have any type of licens, about the worst they could
>> do, i believe, is confiscate the equipment and fine you some amount.
>
>> If you were licensed, though, they could get Creative.
>
>Actually, I did have a ham license in those days.  However, as I said,
>I was running it at *audio* frequencies, not *radio* frequencies.  And
>into a *coil*, not an *antenna*.  It was a near-field, magnetic effect.
>I wasn't broadcasting.

WOuldn't bet on it.

Running that much power, outside its designed band, wouldn't surprise
me if you were splattering.

And i knew a guy who actually managed to work a couple of CW calls
running less than a KW into a Heath "Cantenna" dummy load.