Why in Heaven would you or anyone want to do it? [I think there may be a
Troll here :-) ]


Temperature compensating antenna length for those extra fussy antenna people?
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Forget about the feasibility of this question for the moment.
Could a column of mercury inside a tube of glass be used as an
antenna?

Sure, I don't see why not. You'd have to put up with a bit of tuning
drift, as the resonant frequency would drop in hot weather or after
you'd had your legal-maximum CW station running for a while :-)

There was a running gag over in rec.audio.high-end a few years ago,
about the ultimate speaker cables: mercury-filled surgical rubber
tubing.

Expensive, trouble-prone, toxic, and prone to cause unexpected visits
from the hazmat team. Be the first on your block!

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"Dave Platt" wrote in message
...
...a bunch of stuff, including this:

, toxic,

I resent this. I played with the stuff as a kid and there is absolutely no
adverse side eff..ffe..ffe..ffe ects at..t..t.. all.
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Dave Platt wrote:
There was a running gag over in rec.audio.high-end a few years ago,
about the ultimate speaker cables: mercury-filled surgical rubber
tubing.

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this subject line. For
those who missed it in 1987:

http://tinyurl.com/ywjd8

My favorite response in that 17-year-old thread:

I can see the review by Anthony Cordesman now:

"This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality
of horns has to be heard to be believed. There is a silvery
quality to the brass, with no sign of the hard-edged, coppery
sound normally associated with speaker cable...

73,

John NU3E

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:28:07 -0400, John DeGood wrote:

Dave Platt wrote:
There was a running gag over in rec.audio.high-end a few years ago,
about the ultimate speaker cables: mercury-filled surgical rubber
tubing.

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this subject line. For
those who missed it in 1987:

http://tinyurl.com/ywjd8

My favorite response in that 17-year-old thread:

I can see the review by Anthony Cordesman now:

"This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality
of horns has to be heard to be believed. There is a silvery
quality to the brass, with no sign of the hard-edged, coppery
sound normally associated with speaker cable...

A fine example of what Herb Caen, in the SF Chronicle, used to
refer to as "the prismatic luminescence school of wine critics".

Has anyone actually tried it yet?

Considering only a drop in a neon sign or vapor lamp makes the
difference between not working at radiating a tremendous amount of
energy, it's worth a few careful experiments.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:42:02 -0400, Bob wrote:

Has anyone actually tried it yet?

Considering only a drop in a neon sign or vapor lamp makes the
difference between not working at radiating a tremendous amount of
energy, it's worth a few careful experiments.

haha, good joke.

Advertizing Yagi "Neon" tube arrays as STEALTH antennas.
Your are beating my own inventions of crazy antenna designs.

Won't work too well actually, at least not for reception, because the
irregular flickering of the plasma will induce a very large amount
of noise.

w.
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:29:20 GMT, wrote:
A fine example of what Herb Caen, in the SF Chronicle, used to
refer to as "the prismatic luminescence school of wine critics".
A wonderful columnist.

When I was a dumb kid in the 50s we used to go into the garbage of those
hard of hearing and get their discarded hearing aid batteries to salvage the
mercury. We got quite a bit and used it to make dimes real shiny and let
the little balls roll around in our palms.. Several years ago I started to
wonder what this might have done to me and I did some checking. Several
dentists and a PhD metallurgist all said that the metal mercury is not toxic
and is not absorbed but the salts of it are. In dental fillings it's
amalgamated with silver. Just think how many kids played witth the stuff
and how may dentists have handled and spilled it. When it is improperly
disposed it can react with other chemicals and result in toxic compounds or
salts and when these get into the water system fish apparently eat whatever
feeds on the salts and concentrate it.
From the antenna standpoint I can envision a tall thin tube where mercury is
pushed up to the right level for resonance but it looks like I squared R
losses will be counterproductive.
73
Hank WD5JFR
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
Forget about the feasibility of this question for the moment.
Could a column of mercury inside a tube of glass be used as an
antenna?
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my teeth hurt, what about florescent lights?, they all have a little of
mercury in them, they just get thrown in the dump. I won't bring up the 10
pounds of lead in the monitor you're looking at that lowers the amount of
x-rays produced, and the first color TVs produced were xray hazards at 15
feet, now I'm getting a headache.

"Henry Kolesnik" wrote in message
om...
When I was a dumb kid in the 50s we used to go into the garbage of those
hard of hearing and get their discarded hearing aid batteries to salvage
the
mercury. We got quite a bit and used it to make dimes real shiny and let
the little balls roll around in our palms.. Several years ago I started
to
wonder what this might have done to me and I did some checking. Several
dentists and a PhD metallurgist all said that the metal mercury is not
toxic
and is not absorbed but the salts of it are. In dental fillings it's
amalgamated with silver. Just think how many kids played witth the stuff
and how may dentists have handled and spilled it. When it is improperly
disposed it can react with other chemicals and result in toxic compounds
or
salts and when these get into the water system fish apparently eat
whatever
feeds on the salts and concentrate it.
From the antenna standpoint I can envision a tall thin tube where mercury
is
pushed up to the right level for resonance but it looks like I squared R
losses will be counterproductive.
73
Hank WD5JFR
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
Forget about the feasibility of this question for the moment.
Could a column of mercury inside a tube of glass be used as an
antenna?
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP



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