Walter Maxwell wrote:

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:31:10 -0500, "The Other John Smith"
wrote:


Well, John, there's nothing wrong with your head, except perhaps you're not
really acquainted with the characteristics of shorted RG58's. RG58's are notable
for their storage of heat. After they are energized, and the souce disconnected,
then as the coax cools down and the heat is radiated, a new emf is generated
causing current to flow in the reverse direction. The coax is now a new source
and the power you measured with the 8405 is indicated as negative resistance.

Walt

PS--I once thought I'd become a standup comedian, but the competition was too
great.


Was the RG58 vertical at the time? If you have the shorted up when
vertical, the charge gets pulled back down, causing partial, or during
times of gravitational anamolies, more than complete, cancelation of the
forward looking, i.e "liberal", current, which we all know causes Pointy
Vector to swerve to the right. If you hang the shorted end down, the
reverse occurs, causing more current, or "conservative" current, and
swings the Pointy Vector to the left.

One controversial way to deal with this, is to spin the shorted section
in the horizontal plane, and then we seem to get charge flowing with no
real direction calling itself - "Nader".

tom
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