Re: Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc.)

2010-08-17 Thread La Rue Communications
: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:46 PM Subject: Re: Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc.) On Aug 15, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Jeff DePolo wrote: > Whoever said "time is money" was an idiot. Time is worth inif

Re: Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc.)

2010-08-17 Thread Don Kupferschmidt
Nate, My sincerest thoughts are with you in this time. Don, KD9PT - Original Message - From: Nate Duehr To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:46 AM Subject: Re: Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc

Re: Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc.)

2010-08-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 15, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Jeff DePolo wrote: > Whoever said "time is money" was an idiot. Time is worth inifinitely times > more than money. You can make more money. You can even borrow money. > Hell, if you were desparate you could even steal money. You can't do any of > those things with tim

RE: Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc.)

2010-08-15 Thread Jeff DePolo
> Jeff, out of all the PAs you've seen out there, both commonly > used and not-so-common... which ones (in your opinion) are > properly designed (when "working right")? I think a lot of them, generally speaking, are properly designed. That's not to say that some of them don't have some downside

Properly designed PAs (was: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Coax length, etc.)

2010-08-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 14, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Jeff DePolo wrote: > I disagree. I would accept the notion that the transmitter may not be > "happy" (and I put that in quotes not to mock you, but becuase I can't come > up with a better word either) because it is not *properly matched* when > looking into a 50+j0 lo