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Old March 27th 12, 03:54 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default SWR explained in layman's terms. - Kevin needs to see this one.

On 3/25/2012 10:37 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:38:08 -0500, wrote:

I remember it as 3 pills and 5 pills, but I listened to it yesterday and
he, well he just wasn't.

Maybe pills are tubes?


Nope. A "pill" is a ceramic case RF power transistor that looks like
a large pill.
http://www.cbslang.com/dictionary/pills

This might help (or ruin your technical vocabulary):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CB_slang
http://www.cbslang.com

We gone...



Thanks Jeff, I missed that part of history I guess.

tom
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