Re: geography nerds?

mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.

It would have to be a very high harmonic to ever reach the bottom of
the radio spectrum.  And even then, it would take an antenna miles
long to transmit significant power at such low frequencies.

> 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.

Sure, and i did the same into an ordinary 60-watt light bulb.  But not
at audio frequencies.
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