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Bigbob
| | Posted on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 8:53 pm: | 
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Got a pc122 and a wilson 1000 magnet mount,1996 stock v-6 chevy wt 1500,need a ssb amp that will burn the feathers off close flying birds,so to speak,that is push that antenna as hard as I can get away with.Any brand please. |
bruce
| | Posted on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 9:23 pm: |
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bigbob when i worked for sperry engineering 2nd shift used to point the antennas at a small lake down range and COOK the birds someone finaly figured out the employe picknick tables were withing the 10 db points of the lobe OOPS |
Taz
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2002 - 5:47 pm: |
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try a texas star sweet 16, i dont think the coax will handle the wattage though. I wouldnt run that kind of power through a magnet mount. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 10:12 pm: |
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C'mon guys I'm serious,do ya think a boomer 600 is ok or a ts 667 or a x-force,I dunno what size, remember ssb only. |
Taz
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2002 - 11:11 pm: |
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Im serious too. Thats a little big for you. I like TS so I would take the 667. |
2600
| | Posted on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 1:18 am: |
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Consider your power supply in the vehicle. 4 or 5 transistors is pretty much the upper limit unless you have a police-package high-capacity alternator. Even with one of those, an 8-transistor amp will still be happier with its own separate alternator. Any bigger than 8 transistors, and you pretty well have to give the amp its own alternator and batteries.
Personally, I favor the DX667 over the Boomer 600, but that's just an opinion. If you're comparing used amplifiers, the miles count for as much as the name brand.
Oh, and a mag mount is a famously effective way to blow the H-E-double-toothpicks out of a large amp. The fun part is that you can never predict how soon it will go. Just don't use a K-40 this way.
73 |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 7:07 pm: |
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Bigbob, I sure wish I could help you but this one is beyond me. I just had to comment on the title, "Die birds die!!" That cracked me up and has got to be in the top percentage of "classic titles" on the Copper forum! That was too funny.
Alsworld |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Monday, October 07, 2002 - 8:30 pm: |
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Why thank you very much Alsworld,and thanks to everyone else for the info,I've got a wilson 1000 trunk lip on a copper mega-magnet mount 4 magnets and will put a 4-gauge ground,2 inches long on it if nessesary. |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 08, 2002 - 8:54 pm: |
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2600,I read somewhere that k-40s have a disc cap. internally to form part of the L-C circuit and those discs were notorious for shorting when more than 200 watts were applied,is that good info.or just bunk? |
Cuddlebear
| | Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 3:36 am: |
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Hmmmmm,
Would you like your Bird Medium rare? Or well done?  Decisions, Desicions |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 9:38 pm: |
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charred,dry,brittle bones,hows that? |
Yosimity
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 7:50 pm: |
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Bigbob, Texastar 667 is one of the best amps, but if you want better transmit go to a 102in. whip. It out talks all others. |
Hillbilly_458
| | Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 2:01 pm: |
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the 102" whip does wonders i ran a set of them on my "mini" van and it done wonders to anything i used before and it made my van noticable in a big town of waterloo it was known as the flying cockroche |
Buck
| | Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 5:18 pm: |
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how long you been in waterloo hillbilly??? we should try to hook up sometime...Im just northeast of cedar rapids |
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