Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Walter Underwood
To bring it back to amateur radio, I found FCC publication OET65b fairly straightforward. No need to exercise what I learned in the fields & waves class I took in college (got a C+, I think). I expect the program is handy, but it is Windows-only, so I can’t use it. But the FCC worksheet can be

Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Vic Rosenthal
I did this too. They cut the carrier just long enough for me to get up above the base insulator. We used to joke about being complicit in radiating trashy music. Vic 4X6GP > On 8 Apr 2017, at 03:05, Fred Jensen wrote: > >> On 4/7/2017 4:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: >> Remember, the microwav

Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Vic Rosenthal
I strongly disagree. The heating effect - which is the only scientifically verifiable effect from RF exposure - is far smaller at HF than radar frequencies. Yes, you don't look into a horn antenna of an operating radar transmitter, but a 20 meter dipole is a different story entirely. The exposur

Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Wes Stewart
I spent a good part of my career at Hughes Aircraft working on the Phoenix Missile transmitter/receiver unit. Being an RF guy I was asked once to design and build a 225 MHz PA that would deliver a couple of hundred watts output when driven by an HP608 signal generator. The object was to drive a

Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Fred Jensen
On 4/7/2017 4:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: Remember, the microwave oven was "invented" by an engineer working around magnetron RF sources and discovered the "Hershey" chocolate bar in his shirt pocket had melted. When he figured out why, the "Radar Range" (first brand of microwave oven) was bor

Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
an.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gmail - George Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 12:55 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits Ed & Brian, My father had severe health consequences from working in a classroom with operating military radars! Since the a

Re: [Elecraft] Was Amplifier - Now RF exposure limits

2017-04-07 Thread Gmail - George
Ed & Brian, My father had severe health consequences from working in a classroom with operating military radars! Since the adoption of OET 65 in the late 90s, all licensees (including Hams) have had the responsibility to insure their station is in complete compliance with RF exposure limit guid