On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:00:14 -0800 (PST), Art Unwin
wrote:

On Jan 15, 8:05*am, Dave wrote:
counterpoise

Are we talking counterpoise or are we talking load?

If you are talking, wipe off the screen. I trimmed Dave's post to
reduce confusion - your alternative word, load, never appears.

In fact, we never conjoin the term garage and load, nor roof and load,
nor power lines and load. No, counterpoise has a well known and long
established meaning that has been found in a lot of texts and none of
the authors have ever felt the necessity to join that term with
garage, roof, or power line either.

Perhaps Newton kept his counterpoise in his garage - the historical
record is rather vague on this matter.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:00:14 -0800 (PST), Art Unwin
wrote:

On Jan 15, 8:05 am, Dave wrote:
counterpoise

Are we talking counterpoise or are we talking load?

If you are talking, wipe off the screen. I trimmed Dave's post to
reduce confusion - your alternative word, load, never appears.

In fact, we never conjoin the term garage and load, nor roof and load,
nor power lines and load. No, counterpoise has a well known and long
established meaning that has been found in a lot of texts and none of
the authors have ever felt the necessity to join that term with
garage, roof, or power line either.

Perhaps Newton kept his counterpoise in his garage - the historical
record is rather vague on this matter.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

It's a capacitor.

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:34:42 +0000, Dave wrote:

Perhaps Newton kept his counterpoise in his garage - the historical
record is rather vague on this matter.


It's a capacitor.

History informs us he would have called it a condenser, your word came
into the language later from Le Compte a'Citor, Gauss's French Pen-Pal
from junior high.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:34:42 +0000, Dave wrote:

Perhaps Newton kept his counterpoise in his garage - the historical
record is rather vague on this matter.

It's a capacitor.

History informs us he would have called it a condenser, your word came
into the language later from Le Compte a'Citor, Gauss's French Pen-Pal
from junior high.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Yep, they were all still 'condensers' when I got my first license in '57.

Old as dirt?

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