John S wrote in :

Catenary instead of what I posted.

Yes. I should have read your second post before my first reply..

On 10/12/2014 11:19 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
John S wrote in :

Catenary instead of what I posted.

Yes. I should have read your second post before my first reply..

No problem. Your reply was completely appropriate. We might be just a
bit out of sink (he, he) sync. Let's not get too serious.

John S wrote in :

On 10/12/2014 11:19 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
John S wrote in :

Catenary instead of what I posted.

Yes. I should have read your second post before my first reply..

No problem. Your reply was completely appropriate. We might be just a
bit out of sink (he, he) sync. Let's not get too serious.



I try not to. It's one reason I had a bit of off-topic fun with Douglas Adams
last night when the opportunity arose.

On 10/12/2014 12:13 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
John S wrote in :

On 10/12/2014 11:19 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
John S wrote in :

Catenary instead of what I posted.

Yes. I should have read your second post before my first reply..

No problem. Your reply was completely appropriate. We might be just a
bit out of sink (he, he) sync. Let's not get too serious.



I try not to. It's one reason I had a bit of off-topic fun with Douglas Adams
last night when the opportunity arose.


I'm sorry, I don't know that person. Should I?

John S wrote in :

I try not to. It's one reason I had a bit of off-topic fun with Douglas
Adams last night when the opportunity arose.


I'm sorry, I don't know that person. Should I?


Writer of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and others. He's fairly
popular in technical and scientific circles so he gets mentioned at
surprising and sometimes very funny moments. Aquired taste actually, but I
was lucky enough to aquire it early.

On 10/12/2014 12:26 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
John S wrote in :

I try not to. It's one reason I had a bit of off-topic fun with Douglas
Adams last night when the opportunity arose.


I'm sorry, I don't know that person. Should I?


Writer of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and others. He's fairly
popular in technical and scientific circles so he gets mentioned at
surprising and sometimes very funny moments. Aquired taste actually, but I
was lucky enough to aquire it early.


I know of Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I have never watched.
Probably my loss. In any case, let's do the antenna thing. Yes?

John S wrote in :

I know of Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I have never watched.
Probably my loss. In any case, let's do the antenna thing. Yes?


I think you may need someone better at it than I am right now. I've just
been looking at pjotos of a vertical whip to consider making the junction of
fences it's mounted over into somethign better approximating thre radials of
goodish length, and it's very crude work, very basic practical salvage of an
awkward location. Apart from an FM dipole for listening, and a portanle
longwire to experiment with a Beverage antenna on open land I have access to.
This one is the likely sagging antenna, hence my interest in catenary
effects, but I'm not well placed to try modelling anything yet. I'll want to
finish the thing and get it out there just to try listening to stuff a while
first.

John S wrote in :

I know of Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I have never watched.
Probably my loss.

Not really. It's much better read, or maybe best of all, heard in the
original programs that went out on Radio 4 in the early evenings in the late
70's. Those are famous, likely easily had in various ways. I've seen the
movie, but it doesn't work for me so well. Some of it is great, but they
totally failed to get Marvin right, and that means they lost a lot of the
depth of it. I liked their Vogons though.