"Jim - NN7K" wrote in message
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Not to mention safty concerns- like those FCC rules for hams in the KW
class- minimum safty standards - and those at 100 FEET, not in front of
your face ! Also, those have rarely had great swr readings when
measured. Most likely a combonation of these concerns-- Jim NN7K


Years ago there was a very interesting letter from a real old timer who put
a telephone element across the output of his transmitter .. He was having a
voice QSO with another ham for the first time.. He does not remember what
happened but woke up on the floor. The RF had caused some intercranial
changes and this fellow was fortunate enough to make it alive. I remember
years ago giving SW diathermy transcranial for Alzheimer's with capacity
plates at either ear. I would not want to do that again but it was standard
practice. It is really amazing what tissue heating feels like with those RF
fields ...... adds a new meaning to the phrase ..."a warm feeling within".

73 Tom Popovic KI3R Belle Vernon Pa