Subj : Re: Your First SSB XMTR To : Holger Granholm From : Ed Vance Date : Mon Jun 23 2014 10:14 pm 06-21-14 10:13 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Your First SSB XMTR HG> @MSGID: <53A6B286.616.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net> HG> In a message dated 06-19-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm: HG> Hi Ed, Howdy Holger, -snip- HG> Well, we were allowed 150 Wo at that time in history so this HG> tube was ideal for the purpose unless you wanted to downspec an HG> 813. EV> Which made me want to ask You, does Your License allow You to use EV> One Kilowatt of Input Power at Your QTH in the Aland Islands? HG> Well, I could update my license to 1 kW by just requesting it HG> Actually I just sifted through the rules and found that I am HG> allowed to run 1 kW with my license but as said I've never had HG> the need for that. 300 Watts is the highest RF Input Power I've ran at my QTH, and I think 300W on HF is probably ALL I need to run. When I had the Home Brew 300W RF Amp, with plug-in coils, a older Ham Operator built and used years ago, that he gave to me, I made a QSO on 20M CW with a Ham in Katowice, Poland once when I lived 20 Miles South of where I live now. I know Katowice is a short distance from Your QTH but it was DX to me. The only other higher powered TX's I've used was a T350-XM that was replaced by the CE 100V/600L at K6NCJ when I was stationed at Naval Air Station Alameda, California. I loved using both of those TX's. When I keyed up the T350-XM on 80M or 20M AM it made a 'Hole' in the frequency I used. Before I was assigned duty in Alameda I was in Norfolk, Virginia and used a B&W 5100 at the Ham Shack on the Base. In the mid-1960's a local Ham Radio Store had a list of Radio Gear it wanted for Trade In and to my surprise the B&W5100 was at the top of the list. I asked why and was told that CB'ers wanted those TX's because they had a 11 Meter position on their Band Switch and ran 180W RF Input. That made me wonder about the owner of the store who was a Ham. .... Lawyer: one who calls a 137-page document a brief. --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .