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Re: [TowerTalk] Wooden Poles;Vibrations, Vortex Shedding

To: "Wes Attaway (N5WA)" <wesattaway@bellsouth.net>,towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Wooden Poles;Vibrations, Vortex Shedding
From: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
Reply-to: g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 08:15:24 +0200 (CEST)
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
Wes said:
>Back in the old days it taught us how to think (which was the hard part) and
how to use our slide rules and use our heads to move the decimal point a
lot.<
That was we learnt in the radio course, not the applied mechanics!!!!! Some of 
us still use a slide rule on occasion - they  work when the batteries have run 
out in the calculator. Or log tables if greater resolution is required.
73
Peter G3RZP
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