Yo! Joe:
Monday October 21 1996 03:24, Joe Nicholson wrote to Bill Cheek:
 TC>> Oh, I've keyed up the mike accidentally a time or two, but have
 TC>> never actually transmitted.
 BC>> Keying the mic is......"transmitting".  Very much so.   :-)
 JN>  Well by golly gee, I was beginning to wonderr if I was the only
 JN>  one who saw somethign "funny" in that statement. Do ya think he
 JN>  meant he never spoke and modulated?  
I dunno about that, but I do know that pecking on the mic three quick times 
in succession sends the letter "S".
 BC>> It is a little different when the transmitter is not connected to
 BC>> the receiver. 4-watts out of the antenna, spread out over the
 BC>> spherical wavefront means only a few milliwatts into the receiver,
 BC>> even if the two are fairly close.   [lots of math deleted] The
 BC>> receiver should be able to handle that. Key word = "should"
 JN>  Ain't never seen the receiver in a hand held harmed by exposure to
 JN>  80W from a mobile installation.  And the scanner I brought to work
 JN>  (so I could hear the supervisors chatting about the lower peons)
 JN>  was never damaged by the 80W from the mobiles.
Well, back in the olden, golden days of Citizens Band, it was sort of kicks 
to boogey about town with a 2-kW mobile amplifier and peck up and down on the 
mic in the vicinity of the "good buddies".  Rather often, this would result 
in a blown front end for the poor sap.
But granted, it is easy to protect the front end of a receiver, and why it's 
not done is beyond me.  But obviously it is done in most situations now.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
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