Maybe the big thing to hawk to the unwashed will be lightning in a
(Leyden)jar!!
I do declare, these folks *must* have been used car salesmen in THIS life.
73
Gary...wa6fgi
Harold B. Mandel wrote:
> The other day a poster here said something about a $2K linecord
> and I thought there was a mis-key.
>
> However, today the hard catalog came from MuusicDirect,
>
> http://www.musicdirect.com
>
> and I see he wasn't kidding. For those of us with discerning
> requirements the company offers 120 volt duplex outlets
> to replace those Home Depot $2.00 nightmares with
> $95.00 Shunyata "Venom" outlets. They're "cryogenically
> treated." (Dipped in liquid nitrogen?)
>
> Please, offer yourselves a good laugh and peruse this
> on-line catalog. See what we've been missing. Myself,
> I'm dreaming about the set of eight (8) ceramic cable
> elevators ($159.99) to get those pesky cables off
> the XYL's carpeting. The ad says that my carpet
> acts like a dielectric, "siphoning off and distorting the
> audio as it travels..." Wow. I never knew.
>
> Here I am, wondering if 1/2" silver strapping is good for
> the tank circuit in my GU-84b tetrode project, and how to get
> all ferrous metals out of the RF enclosure while I should be
> concerned with my carpet stealing the signals from my
> cables. And I thought the guys wearing the tinfoil helmets
> were out in left field!
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Hal/W4HBM
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