- 1. [RFI] Re: BPL: Presidential Backing (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:10:37 -0700
- Without a strong unified voice representing the amateur community, exactly what miracle is going to occur such that these arguments will be made on our behalf? League member or not, it's time to cut
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00119.html (8,885 bytes)
- 2. [RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:35:11 -0700
- This reminds me of the old Bob Kliban cartoon, "Wasted and Useful Lives"... My smarty-pants reply would have been, "Yeah, the pornography and spam that is 75% of Internet traffic you would deliver is
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00133.html (8,582 bytes)
- 3. Re: [RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:57:06 -0700
- human to networks, utility. ALL of those things were invented and pioneered by hams for ham radio. (I am referring to the NTS and packet radio networks as "survivable ad hoc networks" - I just gave
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-04/msg00138.html (9,754 bytes)
- 4. Re: [RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 08:30:31 -0700
- let to Ridiculous? Hmmm...guess I'd better take mine off. I thought they made the Taurus handle SOOOO much better :-) Automotive improvements that we all enjoy as a result of experimentation on race
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-05/msg00004.html (8,624 bytes)
- 5. Re: [RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 09:05:24 -0700
- A recent innovation that I overlooked is the SteppIR antenna. Many government installations can us a SteppIR instead of a big log-periodic, reducing installation cost from near or in the six-figure r
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-05/msg00006.html (11,333 bytes)
- 6. [RFI] Re: RFI Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 09:18:35 -0700
- BPL is an excellent and BAD example of how NOT to set industrial policy - ignore any inconvenient facts and crank up the publicity engine. BPL is only one example of how this process causes a lot of
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-05/msg00007.html (6,948 bytes)
- 7. Re: [RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:22:20 -0700
- The problem is energy density, not availability. Hydrogen, being the lightest element, is also the hardest to confine and requires the largest volume for a given equivalent energy density. The resul
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-05/msg00028.html (9,544 bytes)
- 8. Re: [RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:41:20 -0700
- That's why Mike's wife keeps him away from the rig (and sauerkraut) on a hot day. 73, Ward N0AX _______________________________________________ RFI mailing list RFI@contesting.com http://lists.conte
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-05/msg00031.html (8,613 bytes)
- 9. [RFI] RE: Broadband over Power Line (BPL) radio interference (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:37:15 -0700
- to You If that's that My response to this argument has been to say that hams are acting as "canaries in the coal mine", tipping off the public and corporations to the problems of this technology bef
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00025.html (8,509 bytes)
- 10. [RFI] Re: RE: Broadband over Power Line (BPL) radio interference (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:44:43 -0700
- the VOCAL that goes least of if we are to Once upon a time, in response to a student's demand to be taught the entire Jewish Torah while standing on one leg, a sage gently replied: "What is hateful
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00027.html (8,056 bytes)
- 11. Re: [RFI] RE: Broadband over Power Line (BPL) radio interference (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:04:53 -0700
- And I can buy fish at the store or bottled water, too. The point is not that alternatives are not available. The point is that a specific environment (HF spectrum) is in danger of being severely degr
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00029.html (12,928 bytes)
- 12. [RFI] Pin Arcing (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:05:05 -0700
- or shaken, and is a dry weather problem. I have found that poles with this problem respond well to a tune-up session using a Precision Sledgehammer. The test instrument can be as simple as a battery
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00086.html (8,028 bytes)
- 13. Re: [RFI] Pin Arcing (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:24:21 -0700
- Relax, folks - I'm not talking about knocking the pole down or making like John Henry with a 9-pound hammer. I'm talking about making it vibrate a little bit with a hand-held mallet to see if the noi
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00090.html (8,864 bytes)
- 14. Re: [RFI] Pin Arcing (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:08:44 -0700
- vibration and easily hear the correlation with changes in the noise. I shook a guy once and could easily correlate my shaking with the resulting noise. But he turned around and slugged me! I shoulda
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00120.html (8,282 bytes)
- 15. [RFI] Re: Why we badly need "party line" materials for all hams (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:05:12 -0700
- is: meter. Here's an alternative that is less accurate, but still better than raw S-units. Have a nearby friend with a power meter transmit a signal that is capable of reaching S9. 1) Increase the t
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-07/msg00139.html (8,322 bytes)
- 16. Re: [RFI] UTC Paper on BPL5 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:35:28 -0700
- Anytime I read, "...maximizes the value of existing assets by leveraging..." and "...seeking optimum levels of regulation..." I know there is trouble ahead. This combination generally translates to "
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-08/msg00012.html (7,398 bytes)
- 17. Re: [RFI] Ferrite Loops (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:13:55 -0700
- One point that was lost in the excellent discussion about determining ferrite mix is that ferrite beads on the transmitter coax is highly unlikely to have any effect on received RFI. (Unless I misse
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-08/msg00023.html (7,800 bytes)
- 18. Re: [RFI] Ferrite Loops (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:40:10 -0700
- The beads will do no good for other RV'ers. They are suffering interference for one of two reasons: 1) Your rig is radiating a harmonic or other VHF spur on the TV channel they're watching. The LPF
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-08/msg00027.html (8,794 bytes)
- 19. RE: [RFI] ECM...etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:21:38 -0700
- Wireless (UHF, mostly) remote meter reading and load management systems are already in place now and work well. Look for a tall vertical antenna on top of a phone pole somewhere in your neighborhood
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-09/msg00024.html (8,592 bytes)
- 20. Re: [RFI] ECM...etc. (score: 1)
- Author: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 10:05:30 -0700
- The people that have to be convinced are the CFO's at the utilities and they will have to have a very pursuasive reason for scrapping a system that is already in place and that cost millions. As N2EA
- /archives//html/RFI/2004-09/msg00026.html (9,944 bytes)
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