Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 08:03:51 -0500
All towers are lightning magnets so we are or should be interested in protection but... Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem (Problem = old fashioned term for issue) with the advertising
Author: Kevin Stover <kevin.stover@mediacombb.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 08:59:12 -0500
The bane of human technological advance. The Marketing Department. They've got to have jobs too. Arc Gas Discharge *Lightning Protection* OPEK MODEL: LP-350A Warmer temperatures bring an increased th
Basic bull... too many things wrong with it to even start counting. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://wiki.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373
I wonder if the feedline would always be open in very warm places like Arizona. John KK9A All towers are lightning magnets so we are or should be interested in protection but... Is it just me or does
All towers are lightning magnets so we are or should be interested in protection but... Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem (Problem = old fashioned term for issue) with the advertising
I am not sure if this works. Copper in the cable expands due to lightning heat. That expansion could push the protector closed. Perhaps the gas heats faster than copper. I suggest that whoever wrote
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 17:48:07 -0400
Gas discharge units "do work", but unfortunately their advertising department, or whoever wrote the add, has no understanding of how they work. That is enough to turn off knowledgeable "potential" cu
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 17:24:33 -0500
Darwin probe indeed! A clear case for using a Tricorder. 73! N1KEZ de Rob _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerT
Since the company is based in Taiwan, I'll bet dollars for donuts that no one "wrote" that ad; rather, it was run through Google translate and that's what comes out when you translate technical Manda
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 21:03:29 -0400
Doesn't matter where they are located. If a company has the technical expertise, they should have the capability for someone to proof read what ever come out of advertising and AFAIK, they do. Now if
They should, but there is no law human or natural that says they must. And technical merits have no axiomatic relationship to language. It reflects badly on the company, but I bet that's offset signi
This is wayyy OT so I'll keep it brief: many years ago I worked as a service technician for a stereo chain. The service manuals for the Asian equipment was full or mis-translations...the best one was
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 23:56:09 -0400
Many years ago, I worked for a company that sold some equipment to a company located in Japan. This was when we in the US were still the dominate TV set producers. Sometime later a few of our people
An engineer at Mackie told me about a time when they couldn't buy OEM parts for their own mixers because Behringer had bought them up to build their unlicensed copy of the same product. He said they
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 07:21:37 -0500
In the 80's a popular RDF unit in the CA based Tuna fleet was by Taiyo Musen Co LTD of Japan. It had a fiberglass cover over the antenna assembly that was labeled, "Do not except this cover." We gues
If you cant dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Unfortunately, the same people who believe this are probably the same people who believe antenna manufacturers (or at least one) who claim yo