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Offline KesaTopic starter

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The power of the:
« on: July 29, 2012, 01:20:43 PM »
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2012, 04:57:41 PM »
Beautiful. The sheer simplicity of your statement counterpoints the juxtaposition of the underlying angst ridden psyche.
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2012, 05:18:14 PM »
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Beautiful. The sheer simplicity of your statement counterpoints the juxtaposition of the underlying angst ridden psyche.


Uh, yeah.  Wut he said...
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2012, 05:39:53 PM »
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Beautiful. The sheer simplicity of your statement counterpoints the juxtaposition of the underlying angst ridden psyche.

No, I couldn't disagree more..

So I won't..

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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2012, 06:00:27 PM »
Bourgeois decadence!
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2012, 10:05:01 PM »
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2012, 10:49:15 PM »
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HMMM!!!

The only reason I can think of:

Is your     hurting you

I know it is a sick joke

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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2012, 11:00:39 PM »
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It's a slow expensive piece of crap, mine is 2.4% more powerful and it's cheaper.

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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2012, 11:01:09 PM »
@smerf

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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2012, 11:33:33 PM »
Hi,

Sure I did, but I haven't used it now for over 15 years or since all my amature equipment was stolen. Wow!!!!

Didn't know you knew that, you an operator?

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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2012, 11:49:32 PM »
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Hi,

Sure I did, but I haven't used it now for over 15 years or since all my amature equipment was stolen. Wow!!!!

Surprised you never figured it out as soon as I posted a dash :)

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Didn't know you knew that, you an operator?

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I was taught by an uncle when I was a kid, but I have to confess, I don't recall much of it from then. Then in a previous job, my manager turned out to be a big amateur radio enthusiast and was quite into it. When he wasn't trying to bounce radio signals off the moon with some crazily powerful home made antenna array, that is. And in case you wondered, it was actually part of a legitimate competition, nothing tinfoil-hat related. He had some dodgy former soviet era RF 2.5kW power amplifier valve tubes delivered to work one day. At least that's what he said they were. They looked like fat ceramic sparkplugs with massive copper heatsinks. They wouldn't have looked out of place in a vault-tec installation ;)
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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2012, 12:00:01 AM »
Hi,

Yes those were klystron tubes, and I know what you mean by trying to bounce rf off the moon. We once made an antenna out of an old umbrella (steel ribs with tin foil) and picked up the astronauts radio signals out of one of the old Apollo flights. Couldn't believe that our design worked, but it only worked if you followed the signal with a tracker, or tracer, we had to watch the needle to see if the RF was getting stronger or weaker and then move the antenna with our hands until the signal picked up.

Ahhh the good old days.

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Re: The power of the:
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2012, 12:10:24 AM »
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Yes those were klystron tubes,

I couldn't say, but they looked a bit like these:


...only with a dull copper heatsink rather than whatever aluminium (or similar) that appears to be. For scale, the heatsink was a good 5 inches in diameter.

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Ahhh the good old days.

Quite. These days, if there isn't an "app for it", people aren't interested :(
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