[Amps] 10dB and propagation

[R.Measures]

On Feb 7, 2005, at 5:53 PM, K3BU at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/7/2005 5:35:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> ka1xo at juno.com
> writes:
>>> Does this then mean that every transmission is
> contributing to the heat-death of the universe?<<
>
>
> Shhh, don't let envirowackos know about this, they would add it to 
> "global
> warming" and destruction from SUVs, and we will be sentenced to 
> miliwatts.
>
> I think as far as our human contribution to heating etc. is as much as 
> one
> fart in a huge stadium :-)
> Just observe the amount of temperature changes between day and night 
> and
> seasonal. If uncle Sun wasn't there, we would all be popsicles long 
> time ago.
>
> Ionosphere is fascinating, way out there on the scale hard to model, 
> so we
> can mostly speculate, but it is always interesting to see some weird 
> stuff going
> on and have the "experts" 'splain it that it could not be so :-)
>
> I rather see some curiosity to explore "weird" stuff, rather than
> pontificating that it can't be.

Indeed, Yuri.  In the early 1900s, when an Austrian patent office clerk 
and amateur physicist theorized that photons (which have zero-mass and 
travel at the speed of light) were bent by gravity-waves, many 
recognized experts said it can't be and laughed.  Decades later, 
someone measured the time-interval of light from a more distant star 
passing behind a massive star and re-emerging.   The  photon / 
gravity-wave theory was correct.
>
> Yuri, K3BU.us

Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734.  www.somis.org