[TowerTalk] Wooden Poles;Vibrations, Vortex Shedding

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Peter Chadwick wrote:
>Wes said:
>>Back in the old days it taught us how to think (which was the hard part) and
>how to use our slide rules and use our heads to move the decimal point a
>lot.<
>That was we learnt in the radio course, not the applied mechanics!!!!! 
>Some of us still use a slide rule on occasion - they  work when the 
>batteries have run out in the calculator. Or log tables if greater 
>resolution is required.

In Peter's household, even the cat can use a slide rule (wish I'd had 
the camera handy when it did that).


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73 from Ian GM3SEK
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