I watched this video and thought “Wow, KC3VO is like W2IK on steroids”, but after second thought, decided that even though W2IK likes to invent stuff like this that works better than the ordinary store bought stufff, but he wouldn’t be dumb enough\u00a0run something like this so close to his own body.<\/p>\n
At 1kW power,\u00a0Bob Curry\u00a0KC3VO (the inventor) says he gets 1 hour of transmit time, and about 15 minutes at the full 2kW power level. The antenna used for the demo was restricted to 500watts.\u00a0 I checked out KC3VO on www.qrz.com<\/a> and found that he lives only about\u00a03 miles north of Washington, DC, in Adelphi, Maryland, and has a Honda Goldwing motorcycle set up for HF operations also.\u00a0 He works as\u00a0the full time commercial transmitter engineer\u00a0for a high power UHF TV station, which might explain some of his need doses of\u00a0high power RF signals in his body. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n This video clip comes from the “Unauthorized Dayton Tour 2008\/2009). Details at www.arvideonews.com. KC3VO’s 2kW ham radio backpack amplifier gets the attention of the FCC! Some of the visitor comments posted to the video refer to hair loss, need to have a better counter-poise system (W2IK could help him there), and in general the danger of operating 1kw or even the max 2kw so close to your body (and head).<\/p>\n Video posted by KN4AQ to YouTube.com is self explanatory.<\/p>\n