I read and then re-read the two messages. I suppose the easiest thing is to simply say you are both right. The quotes from Walter's book are OK, but what Tom has said is OK too. I think you guys are
JEEZ. Tom, that is a terribly iconoclastic thing to say to those of us working so hard to establish "big" (or even moderate) signals. Contesting is supposed to be serious work, not fun! The Minnesota
<Sure, they make questions and answers which are known beforehand more <difficult. Just how much does it take to memorize an answer to something <you read of which you have absolutely no comprehensio
As Tip O'Neil once said, "All politics are local". I must advise you that the response to your statement and question, ". I hope the league has the resources to make sure this proposed ordinance chan
Bill: I sort of wish you hadn't given away the secret. It is much more fun to read about all the agony people go through to get alignment of elements. only. The degrees, or more, Maybe the thing to d
Dave: I have place a scanned copy of my TH7DX manual at the following ftp site: ftp://ftp.skypoint.com/pub/members/t/tao/docs/ The file is in .pdf format and will require Acrobat 3.0 to read. The rea
"In New England, we get a phenomenon called "frost heaves". It happens when the ground freezes, melts, and refreezes in late winter....." This phenomenon is present in Minnesota and the Dakotas as we
outside of shack. From of the This should be no surprize to those who read carefully the W2DU articles and also read the experiments conducted by W7EL and reported in Antenna Compendium #1 dealing w
I am sure that people are not intentionally making such errors. In fact, I suspect that many of the errors occur at the keyboard and in the "heat of the creative impulse" as persons write. Perhaps th
An interesting subject. I have 3000+ photographs taken by my father over the past 80 years (he is 94) and also those he inherited from relatives that go back into the 1870's (some are on metal media)
Tom's message gave me a chuckle. When I was mayor of my small town (I left office because of self-imposed term limits), the cell phone companies came into town and wanted to use our water tower to mo
I suppose it goes without saying that the easy part of the aluminum joint to clean (the visible outside surface) is necessary, but not sufficient. The internal surface needs the same TLC before matin
I received the following message this morning. I checked with the company and found that it is fraudulent. Apparently someone is seeking to capture credit card numbers using a special contest current
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_00C0_01BD830D.570E2440 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those who may have missed talki
<snip> greater I have installed an eyelet bolt facing downward in the top plate of the tower. I replaced one of the thrust bearing bolts with the eyelet bolt. This places the connection point for the
Eons ago I had the opportunity to be a part of a group which had the interesting name, "Operations Research". As a small part of our activity we set up models of very complex manufacturing systems us
" I'm looking for the proportionality constant (c) that relates wind speed (v) and antenna surface area (A) to the lateral force on the antenna (F), i.e. F = cAv. Any ideas, please? " ** In the Augu
A very nice web page on amateur radio!! URL: http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~cebik/radio.html Thanks for the reference material. Tod Olson, K0TO -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.h
If the conversation on the "air" is not what it is on "wire" I suspect we have only ourselves (and technology and propagation) to blame. We still have licenses and we have the same amount of time ava
I have a Collins 30S1 including the manual. What are you looking for exactly from the manual? Are you able to use the Internet to download from an FTP site? If so, when I am back at my home QTH I can