Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] A PSSA/PSRA Rant

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> (And if you're running a 1 kW tube rig all night long at 27 watts, 
> you're probably wasting enough power in a year or two to pay for that
> 
> solid state rig...but that matter's been beaten to death on another
> list.)
> 


***  When the flea-power PSSA's were first introduced, it was stated
then that stations would have to make their own decisions about whether
their equipment could support those powers, and cost-benefit whether it
made sense to upgradr. Many opted to do as Craig has suggested. Others
opted to purchase separate low power transmitters and swicth over.
Still others decided the powers didn't cover enough area to be worth it
at all and didn't use the PSSA.

I'd also have to wonder what running a higher-powered transmitter at
low power nights over time does to tube life -- or transmitter life.



Russ Edmunds
Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
[15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop


 
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