[TowerTalk] Heat from nearby lightning strikes...

Patrick Greenlee patrick_g at windstream.net
Tue May 31 08:21:37 EDT 2016


In the 80's a popular RDF unit in the CA based Tuna fleet was by Taiyo 
Musen Co LTD of Japan.  It had a fiberglass cover over the antenna 
assembly that was labeled, "Do not except this cover."  We guessed it to 
mean not to remove the cover when installing it.

Patrick        NJ5G


On 5/30/2016 10:35 PM, Howard Hoyt wrote:
> This is wayyy OT so I'll keep it brief: many years ago I worked as a 
> service technician for a stereo chain.  The service manuals for the 
> Asian equipment was full or mis-translations...the best one was from a 
> Luxman amp manual describing the function of a "Mute" button:
>
> "Audio Muting is for such an occasion as a phone call during 
> reproduction"
>
> We chucked about that one for days...
>
> Howie - WA4PSC
>
>
> On 5/30/2016 6:27 PM, towertalk-request at contesting.com wrote:
>> I'll bet dollars for donuts that no one "wrote" that ad; rather, it 
>> was run through Google translate and that's what comes out when you 
>> translate technical Mandarin to English with software that speaks 
>> neither.
>
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