-=> Quoting Bill Cheek to Troy H. Cheek <=-
 TC> Oh, I've keyed up the mike accidentally a time
 TC> or two, but have never actually transmitted.
 BC> Keying the mic is......"transmitting".  Very much so.   :-)
 
 Well by golly gee, I was beginning to wonderr if I was the only
 one who saw somethign "funny" in that statement. Do ya think he
 meant he never spoke and modulated?  
 
 BC> It is a little different when the transmitter is not connected to the
 BC> receiver. 4-watts out of the antenna, spread out over the spherical
 BC> wavefront means only a few milliwatts into the receiver, even if the
 BC> two are fairly close.   [lots of math deleted]
 BC> The receiver should be able to handle that.
 BC> Key word = "should"
 Ain't never seen the receiver in a hand held harmed by exposure to
 80W from a mobile installation.  And the scanner I brought to work
 (so I could hear the supervisors chatting about the lower peons)
 was never damaged by the 80W from the mobiles.
 Matter of fact, never saw a mobile's receiver damaged by an adjacent
 80W mobile xmtr.  We're talking about a lot of hand helds, and a lot
 of mobile units, just sitting next to each other in Winchell's.  
 ..................or on a fire ground.
... Firefighters find 'em HOT and leave 'em WET.
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