I'm not surprised that alternators fly apart, the drive ratio is 1:4 so when the engine is pushed to the red line (as always by the sound of it) 7,000rpm the alternators are spinning at 28,000rpm. There comes a point of diminishing returns but you'll never convince a pedal to the metal freak.
Of course the explanation is in the antennas, the average CBer never heard of modeling software so they're clueless when it comes to gain and proper spacing of the elements. A common array is a row of Rod of God sticks spaced too close together and phased who knows how, let the devil take the hindmost. He does in the video I was looking for, they arc and flare like mad and fall off the boom.
"Food for thought: I know that studies say the RF energy below a certain frequency doesn't affect the body..."
Eh, sort of, but check the FCC RF exposure tables and you'll see safe distances based on power level and frequency. Even AM BCB towers can radiate dangerous amounts of energy, as an example when I was at the WOON Woonsocket, RI transmitter site I approached the tower for a closer look at something and the CE warned me not to go inside the fence. I already knew what that was about, judging by it's spacing from the tower base, at 1KW @ 1240KHz the safe distance is >2'. Distance increases with frequency and power level because smaller and smaller body organs resonate and heat up.
"The DC "Sky's-Da-Limit" champ passed last year of Leukemia after many year of RF exposure..."
Why am I not surprised? Considering it's cancer of the bone marrow the longer the bone the lower its resonant frequency. If one's the right fractional wavelength at 27MHz the marrow heats up enough to be damaged and of course the effects are cumulative. FYI there's growing evidence that cell phones cause brain damage, not hard to figure out why. For that reason I hesitate to use an HT in hand, mine stays clipped to my belt and the speaker-mic clipped to my lapel.
"I would have done a better job proselytizing my Prostate Gland..."
I'm sure mine is but is 2M a religion?
"...why would an operator stop doing QRO shoot outs even if they know it is dangerous?"
Because being king of the hill infuses one's ego with a feeling of power and that's what CB is all about... Crazy Band. On the other hand I know a ham with a 10KW transmitter on 160M but I digress.
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