[Amps] 10dB and propagation

[R.Measures]

On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:38 AM, Ian White G3SEK wrote:

> R. Measures wrote:
>> 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.
>
> When measurements don't fit in with everything we already know, real 
> scientists and engineers are trained to ask themselves:
>
> "Is this something really new - am I really another Einstein? Or did I 
> simply get it wrong?"
>
The question is simply: Is my HP-355 step-attenuator set intermittently 
off by 3db?
>
> -- 
> 73 from Ian G3SEK    ...

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