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OK, I'll go along with that. But the thing I can't figure out, is why we don't have water detectors at my local hardware store, which take the divining rod concept and put it in a self-contained uni
Statistics are a way of summarizing data. By choosing which data to summarize, or by tailoring the criteria used to summarize it, you can make the statistics say anything you want. In this thread, f
This reminds me of something, and helps bring the discussion somewhat back on topic. Last year a small sinkhole developed in the street next to my house. The town carefully marked off boundaries for
In my case I think the gas lines were exactly where the gas company said they were; but nobody bothered to consult them BEFORE digging. I thought that's what "Dig Safe" was SUPPOSED to do. Apparentl
And then there was Edwin Armstrong, who was proud of his ability to climb and stand on top of towers on city skyscrapers, without regard to safety. He did it since he was a boy. It was a different ti
For a short backyard tower that might work. But not a 1700 foot tower. But then what would you do with the line the rest of the year? You would need to anchor it away from the tower. If you pulled i
I couldn't help but chuckle at that. The fact that Fisher-Price and MFJ would be thought of as "rivals" ... But then, on the other hand, I'm sure there are those who think it's a perfect fit! Andy _
Because not everyone needs a multi-KW antenna tuner. And I'm sure many (myself included) find the metering quite handy, to know where to set the controls. 1 box is easier than 2 or 3. And some like
Maybe that was their big mistake. If I remember right, they said Cushcraft manufacturing will stay in New Hampshire. Perhaps the more removed they are from Mississippi, the better. Andy ____________
That may be. On the other hand, both companies did say that it was going to be a few months to get everything figured out, even though the delay was not moving the factory from NH to MS. Their websi
I didn't watch that Nova, but IIRC it was from about 2 years ago. Was it that long ago (10 years?) that fractal antennas came out? There's some fellas here in the northeast USA (don't know if N1IR is
Not to defend N1IR (or did you mean W1YW ?), but ... Nova is produced in Boston, and Fractal Antenna Systems is a few miles away in Waltham, MA. It could simply be that the Nova producers were makin
Agreed, call DIG-SAFE (or whoever handles it in your area) ... but don't assume their information is necessarily correct either. We almost had a very loud boom, here, when the town dug up a portion
Well, it isn't always. You are right to question that assumption. Given a center fed dipole, which is physically a pretty good mirror image (not a sloper, or one end running to a metal roof when the
"Two terminals" is fine on paper. But you never have two terminals. You always have "ground", and who knows what else. Take your balanced feedline and move the wires together so they touch, and now y
Not exactly tower related. Two signals on the same, or nearly the same, frequency can add together either constructively (in phase) or destructively (out of phase). If the two signals (their RF sign
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I have never heard of a way to get Gmail to do what you want, and as far as I know there is NO setting to not dump the email it gets back from the list. The way to solve it, is to convince Google to
Perhaps mistaken. NVIS usually works best close to the "foF2" frequency, which is the highest frequency where an ordinary wave 'reflects' off the F2 layer. The D layer just gets in the way. Andy ___