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January 22nd 05, 11:45 PM
Doug McLaren
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In article .com,
K4YZ wrote:
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wrote:
| Communications satellite fails:
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| Probably some "radio professional" had his hands "inside the box"
| and dropped his dust pan...I mean multimeter...
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| Prof spends 18 years on experiment that goes to Saturn, somebody
| forgets to turn it on:
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| Even Novices and No-Code Techs know to turn the radio on!
Yes, but the radio isn't usually millions of miles away by the time
they notice it's not on ...
In any event, this sort of thing happens closer to Earth too. Many
R/C gliders have been lost because somebody put them n the winch
(basically a motorized bungee) and launched the plane without ever
turning on the receiver in the plane. What happens next generally
depends on how well the plane was trimmed and how stable it is --
ranging from flying off never to be seen again to making a lawn dart
out of itself ...
And I'll bet some ham has put a transponder or repeater or something
onto a balloon and launched it, forgetting to turn the stuff on first
--
Doug McLaren,
`Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.'
-- H.R. Haldeman
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