Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:43 pm
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Back about 1977, i did a trade-show in Burnley. Customer from Accrington walked in with what appeared to be a hand-held Walkie-talkie.
We paused business, whilst he spoke to somebody who was about 8 miles away and explained that he would "lose" the contact when the other "Ham" drove into a valley.
As a nosey, inquisitive type, I asked a lot of questions, as he was the first "Ham" I'd knowingly met.
He said the Transmit power was 1/4-watt and I questioned it's practicality. He assured me, that power was sufficient for "line of sight" comms and suggested that, should he be standing on Dover's white cliffs, he could happily converse with someone in Calais....I had no reason to doubt his word.
In those days there were a lot of illegal AM American CB's about , which were several watts output. He assured me, given suitable atmospherics, the operators could converse with other units actually in America.
It's discussions like this where we really miss the wisdom of Keef.
We paused business, whilst he spoke to somebody who was about 8 miles away and explained that he would "lose" the contact when the other "Ham" drove into a valley.
As a nosey, inquisitive type, I asked a lot of questions, as he was the first "Ham" I'd knowingly met.
He said the Transmit power was 1/4-watt and I questioned it's practicality. He assured me, that power was sufficient for "line of sight" comms and suggested that, should he be standing on Dover's white cliffs, he could happily converse with someone in Calais....I had no reason to doubt his word.
In those days there were a lot of illegal AM American CB's about , which were several watts output. He assured me, given suitable atmospherics, the operators could converse with other units actually in America.
It's discussions like this where we really miss the wisdom of Keef.