[TowerTalk] Galv Paint Thread [LONG]

K4SB k4sb@mindspring.com
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:13:38 -0700


spelunk.sueno wrote:
> 
> ALL:
> 
>  Don't laugh about invisible paint!  The April, 1966 (maybe '65) issue
> of QST ran an article about such material.  The pigment absorbed 
> invisible spectrum and reflected infrared; that way birds wouldn't fly > into it. (they're sensitive to IR, according to April QST.)  Towers  > would become invisible and the human eye would fill in the background; > proof included in article.

I think the trun north debacle has been more than adequately vanquished
by the stupidity of this. 

I can only hope this was meant as a joke, in which case it doesn't
belong
here.

73

Ed

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