Well, Bill ..... what I build for myself and my design philosophy here at home,
armed as I am with (a) my belief in my own capability, (b) my attitude to risk
to myself and (c) a sensible and proportionate evaluation of said risk given
who will operate said equipment is not necessarily the same as that which I
would take where other people are involved or where I'm involved
professionally.
Anyway, who tells the truth in interviews :-) ???
I'm not saying that I don't care about safety. In fact now that my wife is
sick and I have to care for her I'm a lot more risk averse than I used to be -
so much so that I don't think I'll ever beat that best lap time around the
Nurburgring Nordschleife track - every time I go near the red line the little
speed limiter in my brain seems to say "who'll look after Lesley if you're dead
in a ditch?".
I'm not saying that I actually WOULD build HT leads using PL259s (actually I
use specialist HT connectors as recommended by a certain Mr GM3SEK), merely
that I don't take kindly to someone in an "authority" in his London office
telling me that I can't.
The powers that be have made Britain a very safe place for stupid people to
live, but we've lost sight of that long-lost ideal called "freedom" - even if
it is freedom to become a posthumous Darwin award. Thankfully I drive a German
car, so it doesn't have a little sticker on the convex door mirror saying
"Warning, objects .... closer ... blah blah". Yet.
:-)
cheers
Dave G0OIL (still breathing...)
--- On Mon, 13/9/10, Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] SHV connectors great, but where to find coax?
To: "'AMPS'" <amps@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, 13 September, 2010, 18:56
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:46:28 +0000 (GMT), DAVE WHITE
<mausoptik@btinternet.com> wrote:
> If I want to build an HT lead with a PL259 on the end of it,
>then that's what I'll damn well do and I personally will
>take the risk. If I plug one end into the 6kV supply and the
>other into my right nostril then that's my own fault and my
>own responsibility, right?
REPLY:
If you apply for an engineering job somewhere, you probably should not
mention your design philosophy to the interviewer. :-)
Bill, W6WRT
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