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Richard Clark · October 17th 08, 07:39 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:05:01 GMT, wrote:

Richard Clark wrote:

Well, it's been a coon's age since I've seen vacuum cleaners that
would let me attach to their exhaust - so that's out.

Have you ever heard of a shop vacuum?

Usually only available at highly specialized stores such as Walmart.

Hi Jim,

Unfortunately my shopping nature turns me more towards Fry's and I
certainly have very little interest in yet another vacuum cleaner (if
they offer them). Market forces long (decades) ago convinced me that
Hardware skills were in a declining employment segment in proportion
to software.

There may not be a software solution to this current problem of
locating a buried pipe, but I wouldn't have buried it without some
simple binary marker (it's here!). The analog solutions offered are
inventive, and I do appreciate them however. One or several are
probably far more effective than going to Walmart for a shop-vac (that
would only become a permanent altar attesting to my need to use it in
justification for its expense).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC