The amateur limit is 1000 Watts. Personally I ran 800+ Watts on the 2 metre band in the late 1980s for my EME (moonbounce) station. All analog, single long-boom Yagi. I used a 2M downconverter and listened on my 10M receiver as it was way more sensitive than my 2M rig.
Over about a year's operation I heard about 10 stations via EME and worked only 2. Still, that was a very good operational record for a single Yagi station of the era. Possibly relevant to Marcus' and others' warnings, my power amplifier did EXPLODE on one occasion due to dried-out filter capacitors. Big fireball, and little bits of paper blown right through the amplifier case and all over the room. It was spectacular :=/ My wife tells the story very well: she was in the kitchen and heard this big "BOOM". She called upstairs "Is everything alright?" and I calmly replied "No problem. Could you bring the fire extinguisher up here please?" Fortunately no fire, and I replaced the filter capacitors. The amplifier was fine - a good bonus, as I had borrowed it from a research lab at a local university for a couple of weeks. With the new weak signal DSP techniques, I hear that 100 Watts and a single Yagi will get you many contacts, although the data rate will be very low. Still, it works and that is amazing! I think Daniel was just asking if these German amplifiers are good quality. I hear that they are, and that they work very well, although I have never used or seen one in person. I hear they stand behind their gear, and will also do custom designs. Kevin (VE7ZD) On 15-12-30 04:03 PM, Johnathan Corgan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:14 PM, James Humphries > <james.humphr...@ettus.com <mailto:james.humphr...@ettus.com>> wrote: > > > I'm on Marcus' side with that output power, that's a scary high > output. I start to sweat at 10W... :) > > > Heh, I connected a USRP to a 20KW PA once. Sweating was only one of > several things done in anticipation :) > > > -- > Johnathan Corgan > Corgan Labs - SDR Training and Development Services > http://corganlabs.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
