'knew someone that was involved in installation of large amplifiers (10KW)
for CDNARS (Civil Defense National Alert Readiness System) some 25 years
ago...

It seems that there was this installation in an underground vault near Denton
Texas, and a rather nice antenna farm not too far away that could be
controlled from the vault... The friend also didn't like the high power CB
crowd in the area as they had been getting more than a bit out of band....
Someone claiming to have a kilowatt mobile was parked across the street from
the CDNARS station, and kept pressing his luck... This guy just wouldn't
quit, moving from channel to channel and blasting innocent people with his
brand of "i'm louder, and therefore better than you". After an afternoon of
finding this guy splattering all over the bands, the friend connected a
large, gain antenna, and after repeated requests and warnings to clear the
frequency, took the matter into his own hands and pumped 10KW straight down
this guy's throat, right on his frequency..... Somehow, it seemed to affect
his equipment, as he quit transmitting and wasn't heard again for the better
part of a month at least (beyond that, the friend had moved on to another
site, so doesn't know beyond that time). There was a rumor that there was a
release of smoke from the mobile, but I'm not all that sure how or how much.
(Now, how he had a kilowatt in a mobile vehicle 25 years ago stretches my
belief a bit, but it's still a good story).

Even if he was blowing smoke up _my_ a**, it's still fun to think that
someone got theirs, even if the means wasn't within reasonable bounds. Of
course, taking matters into your own hands wouldn't be legally or politically
correct....

--Rick

Michael White wrote:

har har LOL,you didn't really think.............nah cmon now...........
:O)

A ham friend of mine actually did have an old Harris commerical amp that
would run an honest 5,000 watts. His transceiver was opened up for
transmitting, and he was idly tuning around the citizen's band. He heard
some guy who had just gotten an old FT-101 cooking on CB, and was saying:

"Hey all you 5 watt pukes out there, this is what One...Hundred...Watts
sounds like!"

My friend fired up the Harris and hollered into the mic:

"Hey all you hundred watt pukes out there, this is what
Five...Thousand...Watts sounds like!"

The CBer declined to answer.

True story.