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Andy Cowley July 11th 05 12:31 PM

Trevor Day wrote:

In message , Reg
Edwards writes

Trev,
Performance is no better and no worse than what can be expected from
any other sort of antenna of about the same physical size and the same
length of feedline. Try it and see.

I once worked 3 miles on SSB, on 160m, in broad daylight, with about
10 milliwatts, on 8 feet of wire lying on the ground, thrown out of a
downstairs window. The ground connection was via 10 feet of wire from
a domestic gas pipe. But I don't brag about it. The credit all goes
to Clerk Maxwell.

As Clerk implied, any bloody thing works.
----
Reg.



Thanks Reg,

I expect you are quite right, but I am still puzzled about the bandwidth
aspect. Roy states that this is due to losses in the matching system,
in which case would it be possible to 'detune' a similar small antenna
and get similar results in that regard. If I can actually do that and
see the result, then I will be happy :-)

Trev


Try running it it parallel with a suitable resistive load. You will see
increased 'bandwidth', i.e. the SWR will be lower over a greater
frequency range. If you eliminate the aerial altogether then the 'bandwidth'
will cover frequencies up to several GHz with a good quality load ;-)

I have actually worked a local amateur dummy load to dummy load. Both
loads were good quality (one Bird, one Marconi) and all the cabling was
short and good quality coax. Leakage was probably less than a few milliwatts.
The rigs had different IFs so it probably was the signal frequency we were
hearing. Being able to work stations is no measure of antenna efficiency.

Heating is not a good way of determining efficiency unless you do real
calorimetry. I've tried 100W CW key down into a real 100W continuous load
(not one of the Made From Junk ones, which are grossly overrated), for
ten minutes and the temperature increase was just discernible, it
certainly didn't get hot.


vy 73

Andy, M1EBV




vy 73

Andy, M1EBV




Roy Lewallen July 11th 05 12:52 PM

Trevor Day wrote:

Roy,

I think you got as far as my first paragraph and didn't read any further.

I am not attempting to justify this antenna or the way it works, just
trying to get an explanation for one aspect of it. If you had read what
I had written you would have seen the answer to your questions above.

Is it possible to 'mismatch', for want of a better expression, a loop to
achieve an equivalent bandwidth?


Yes. Put a resistor in series or parallel with it, or put a pad
(attenuator) between it and your rig. When you find the value that gets
you the bandwidth of the CFA, you'll also have about the same
efficiency. The power will be going into the resistor instead of into
the "phasing" and/or matching networks.

I have constructed many short
verticals for portable and mobile use over the years, but have always
experienced narrow bandwidth. It is this aspect of the 'EH' that I
would like to understand.


It's loss, plain and simple.

btw, starting your answer with "Sigh" might be justified if I appeared
to be ignoring your continued advice but surely not at first meeting?


Sort of. You apparently didn't check groups.google.com to see the great
mass of postings I and others have made about those antennas, many times
before. A tremendous amount has been written and posted about the CFA
and EH antennas. But like astrology, homeopathy, and other hoaxes, no
amount of objective evidence keeps people from wanting to believe.
Either they don't search it out, they're not able to evaluate it when
they find it, or they choose to ignore it when it threatens their
beliefs. It's resigning myself to that sad certainty and the Sisyphusian
(Sisyphusan?) task of combatting it which makes me sigh.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Reg Edwards July 11th 05 01:29 PM

Trev,

As Cecil says, a wider than expected bandwidth in an antenna of given
size, is an absolutely sure sign of greater loss somewhere in the
wideband antenna system.

Unless one knows how the thing is supposed to work, which with EH and
CFA is not very likely, there's no indication of where the loss may be
except from a visual examination. If there are any coils of
relatively thin wire, either in the antenna or tuner/phaser, then
that's a good pointer.

But experimenting to improve the bandwidth*efficiency product, one way
or the other, will not get you very far. As one goes up the other is
sure to go down. It's not difficult to guess which you would prefer.

A magloop. with a single turn coil of copper pipe at the lower
frequencies, is far and away the most narrow banded and therefore the
most efficient of all the small antennas. Furthermore it has a
built-in, equally very low loss tuner.
----
Reg.

======================================

"Trevor Day" wrote in message
...
In message , Reg
Edwards writes
Trev,
Performance is no better and no worse than what can be expected

from
any other sort of antenna of about the same physical size and the

same
length of feedline. Try it and see.

I once worked 3 miles on SSB, on 160m, in broad daylight, with

about
10 milliwatts, on 8 feet of wire lying on the ground, thrown out of

a
downstairs window. The ground connection was via 10 feet of wire

from
a domestic gas pipe. But I don't brag about it. The credit all

goes
to Clerk Maxwell.

As Clerk implied, any bloody thing works.
----
Reg.


Thanks Reg,

I expect you are quite right, but I am still puzzled about the

bandwidth
aspect. Roy states that this is due to losses in the matching

system,
in which case would it be possible to 'detune' a similar small

antenna
and get similar results in that regard. If I can actually do that

and
see the result, then I will be happy :-)

Trev
--
Trevor Day
UKSMG #217
www.uksmg.org




Reg Edwards July 11th 05 01:51 PM

Being able to work stations is no measure of antenna efficiency.

What then, is the true relationship which affects the ability to work
stations.



J. Mc Laughlin July 11th 05 02:28 PM

Dear Roy:
I am in complete agreement. As an example, when dealing with antenna
tower evaluation I convert everything about the tower to SI (knowing the
approximate SI density of materials helps to ensure that the conversion was
done correctly), and then do the evaluation. When it comes to the design of
foundations, I need to convert the SI answer back into the other units so
that the skilled trades are able to do their thing.

How silly to have a system that depends on an assumed gravitational
system.

73 Mac N8TT

--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
Home:
"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
...
Years ago I tracked down a constriction ("resistance") in my house's
water system with a bucket and stopwatch to measure flow ("current") and
a fuel pump pressure gauge to measure water pressure ("voltage") and a
schematic of the "circuit". I kind of chuckled thinking of all the
simplified explanations of electricity using water -- I found it much
easier to convert in the other direction.

As for "pounds", I was always off by the acceleration of gravity squared
in the only two one-semester courses I took which weren't metric,
Statics and Dynamics. I never could remember which of those units --
pounds mass, pounds force, poundals, slugs, aargh, had the acceleration
already built in and which didn't. I finally managed by first converting
each problem to metric, solving it, then converting the result back to
that God-awful system of units.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL





Walter Maxwell July 11th 05 03:14 PM


"Trevor Day" wrote in message
...
In message , Reg
Edwards writes
Trev,
Performance is no better and no worse than what can be expected from
any other sort of antenna of about the same physical size and the same
length of feedline. Try it and see.

I once worked 3 miles on SSB, on 160m, in broad daylight, with about
10 milliwatts, on 8 feet of wire lying on the ground, thrown out of a
downstairs window. The ground connection was via 10 feet of wire from
a domestic gas pipe. But I don't brag about it. The credit all goes
to Clerk Maxwell.

As Clerk implied, any bloody thing works.
----
Reg.

You want QRP, Trev, I'll give you QRP. The telemetry transmitters used on
the early TIROS weather satellites delivered only 10 milliwatts, yet they
produced an S9 signal at a 400 mile high orbit at maximum slant range of
1800 miles to the horizon.

I don't know about other TV satellites, but the RCA Satcoms of the late
70s and early 80s used transmitters that delivered only 5 watts at an
altitude of 23,000 miles. (I will have to admit, however, that 5 watts into
its 30 dB dish produced an EIRP of 5 kw.)

Walt, W2DU


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----




Frank July 11th 05 05:42 PM

"Spike" wrote in message
...
Frank wrote:

The spring and damper can be exactly model as an electrical analog;


I'm sure you're right.

However, a coil/capacitor is not a model or analogue of a
spring/damper system. It was discussed extensively at the time.

from
Aero Spike


I am not sure I understand your response. To be exact a "spring/damper" can
be modeled as a coil/resistor. For resonance to occur you need a
capacitor/inductor, or mass/spring. All components of either mechanical or
electrical circuits require the solution of the same simple differential
equation, such as i = C*dv/dt etc.

Regards,

Frank



Wes Stewart July 11th 05 05:52 PM

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:46:13 +0100, "Gerard Lynch"
wrote:


[snip]
Guns aren't an issue here. We're not allowed to have them. Nobody much (as
in about 90% of the population) cares. We care about things you folks have
never even heard about instead (fancy an ID card?)


Over here in 'Merica they're called "Social Security Cards." Every
newborn baby is required to have one.

Richard Fry July 11th 05 06:44 PM

"Reg Edwards"
As Cecil says, a wider than expected bandwidth in an antenna of given
size, is an absolutely sure sign of greater loss somewhere in the
wideband antenna system.

________________

I don't know your definition of an "expected bandwidth," but for a reality
check--many forms of panel antennas used in FM and TV broadcast transmission
have 20% or better SWR bandwidth, and radiate nearly every watt that can be
delivered by the feedline with almost NO "matching" losses. They have been
in routine use for decades at master antenna transmit sites all over the
world.

RF

Visit http://rfry.org for FM transmission system papers.


Cecil Moore July 11th 05 06:46 PM

Wes Stewart wrote:
Over here in 'Merica they're called "Social Security Cards." Every
newborn baby is required to have one.


But the illegal aliens can get their GED without one.
They are issued a non-SS tracking number instead of SS#.
--
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Trevor Day July 11th 05 06:47 PM

In message , Reg
Edwards writes
Trev,

As Cecil says, a wider than expected bandwidth in an antenna of given
size, is an absolutely sure sign of greater loss somewhere in the
wideband antenna system.

Unless one knows how the thing is supposed to work, which with EH and
CFA is not very likely, there's no indication of where the loss may be
except from a visual examination. If there are any coils of
relatively thin wire, either in the antenna or tuner/phaser, then
that's a good pointer.

But experimenting to improve the bandwidth*efficiency product, one way
or the other, will not get you very far. As one goes up the other is
sure to go down. It's not difficult to guess which you would prefer.

A magloop. with a single turn coil of copper pipe at the lower
frequencies, is far and away the most narrow banded and therefore the
most efficient of all the small antennas. Furthermore it has a
built-in, equally very low loss tuner.
----
Reg.


Thanks for your time Reg,
I drafted a lengthy response to your note above a little earlier but
binned it in favour of this :-) I suppose my problem is that I would
dearly like to believe the claims for the EH et al but my head tells me
that it can't be so. I have had a lot of fun 'playing' with the idea and
I suppose I should be happy with that.

Trev

--
Trevor Day
UKSMG #217
www.uksmg.org

Cecil Moore July 11th 05 06:48 PM

Richard Fry wrote:

"Reg Edwards"
As Cecil says, a wider than expected bandwidth in an antenna of given
size, is an absolutely sure sign of greater loss somewhere in the
wideband antenna system.


I don't know your definition of an "expected bandwidth," but for a
reality check--many forms of panel antennas used in FM and TV broadcast
transmission have 20% or better SWR bandwidth, and radiate nearly every
watt that can be delivered by the feedline with almost NO "matching"
losses. They have been in routine use for decades at master antenna
transmit sites all over the world.


And, for the record, it wasn't me who said that.
--
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Reg Edwards July 11th 05 06:51 PM

So ?



Spike July 11th 05 07:13 PM

Frank wrote:

"Spike" wrote in message
.. .
Frank wrote:

The spring and damper can be exactly model as an electrical analog;


I'm sure you're right.

However, a coil/capacitor is not a model or analogue of a
spring/damper system. It was discussed extensively at the time.


I am not sure I understand your response. To be exact a "spring/damper" can
be modeled as a coil/resistor.


I refer you my other post on the subject, where I quote the OP in
full.

For resonance to occur you need a
capacitor/inductor, or mass/spring. All components of either mechanical or
electrical circuits require the solution of the same simple differential
equation, such as i = C*dv/dt etc.


No-one was arguing that that was not the case. A spring might have the
mechanical equivalent of reactance, but a damper will most certainly
not - hence the rubbish posted by the OP, where he believes that
dampers store energy. They do not, and therefore cannot have the
mechanical equivalence of a reactance. Therefore, resonance is not
possible with such a system. In the extreme, the OP was reduced to
likening dampers to bicycle pumps, a sure sign of a failure to grasp a
fundamental point (and hence the error of his assertion).

from
Aero Spike

Roy Lewallen July 11th 05 07:25 PM

Richard Fry wrote:

I don't know your definition of an "expected bandwidth," but for a
reality check--many forms of panel antennas used in FM and TV broadcast
transmission have 20% or better SWR bandwidth, and radiate nearly every
watt that can be delivered by the feedline with almost NO "matching"
losses. They have been in routine use for decades at master antenna
transmit sites all over the world.


Now shrink down those antennas by a factor of, say, 10 in size. Think
they'd still do it? If so, you're the natural prey for the charlatans.

In product development, we say fast-cheap-good, pick any two. With
antennas it's small-efficient-broadband, pick any two. "Small" is, of
course, always in terms of wavelength when it comes to antennas.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Reg Edwards July 11th 05 07:38 PM


"Richard Fry" wrote in message
...
"Reg Edwards"
As Cecil says, a wider than expected bandwidth in an antenna of

given
size, is an absolutely sure sign of greater loss somewhere in the
wideband antenna system.

________________

I don't know your definition of an "expected bandwidth," but for a

reality
check--many forms of panel antennas used in FM and TV broadcast

transmission
have 20% or better SWR bandwidth, and radiate nearly every watt that

can be
delivered by the feedline with almost NO "matching" losses. They

have been
in routine use for decades at master antenna transmit sites all over

the
world.

RF

==================================

I've no reason to doubt it.

But this is a topic about the bandwidth of physically small HF
antennas.

And as usual, when the slightest difference of opinion occurs,
somebody invariably feels impelled to go off at a tangent and drag in
something they feel more at home with, such as VHF and UHF TV
transmitting antennas, and, very soon, if we are not careful,
distractions such as scattering parameters, reflected power, etc.
----
Reg



Reg Edwards July 11th 05 07:54 PM


"Roy Lewallen" wrote -
Now shrink down those antennas by a factor of, say, 10 in size.

Think
they'd still do it? If so, you're the natural prey for the

charlatans.

===============================

Roy, I'm thinking of occasionally changing 'old wives' to
'charlatans'. It may sometimes better fit the circumstances.
----
Reg.



Reg Edwards July 11th 05 08:04 PM


"Cecil Moore" said,

And, for the record, it wasn't me who said that.
===================================


As it was quite true you just as well could have said it. So I didn't
take the trouble to correct the minor error.

Sorry Roy.
===
Reg.




Reg Edwards July 11th 05 08:24 PM

Ever heard of a diversity receiver?

==============================

You seem to enjoy starting useless arguments.
Are you a troll?
Spacial or frequency diversity?
Leave me out of it.
---
Reg.



Frank July 11th 05 08:33 PM

For resonance to occur you need a
capacitor/inductor, or mass/spring. All components of either mechanical
or
electrical circuits require the solution of the same simple differential
equation, such as i = C*dv/dt etc.


No-one was arguing that that was not the case. A spring might have the
mechanical equivalent of reactance, but a damper will most certainly
not - hence the rubbish posted by the OP, where he believes that
dampers store energy. They do not, and therefore cannot have the
mechanical equivalence of a reactance. Therefore, resonance is not
possible with such a system. In the extreme, the OP was reduced to
likening dampers to bicycle pumps, a sure sign of a failure to grasp a
fundamental point (and hence the error of his assertion).

from
Aero Spike


I am not aware of a damper ever being considered a storage device.
Capacitance is equivalent to mass, Inductance is equivalent to a spring, and
resistance equivalent to a damper. Am I missing something?

Anyway will read later posts and see what I can get out of it.

Frank



Frank July 11th 05 08:40 PM

No-one was arguing that that was not the case. A spring might have the
mechanical equivalent of reactance, but a damper will most certainly
not - hence the rubbish posted by the OP, where he believes that
dampers store energy. They do not, and therefore cannot have the
mechanical equivalence of a reactance. Therefore, resonance is not
possible with such a system. In the extreme, the OP was reduced to
likening dampers to bicycle pumps, a sure sign of a failure to grasp a
fundamental point (and hence the error of his assertion).

from
Aero Spike


Is this what you are talking about?

"The same analogy applies to springs and to shock absorbers;
the spring stores energy when stretched; the shock-absorber
stores energy when compressed. Both the spring and shock
absorber will return energy at some time and this exhibit reactance!"

I think we have been at cross purposes. The above is nonsense.

Frank



Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 11th 05 08:51 PM

Beanie's bum chum Nedlar wrote:

This guy, being a brave keyboard warrior, likes to call people idiots.
However, when confronted by children he acts like the coward he is.
I append a short article of his when he was posting as 'RVMJ'


On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:04:36 +0000, RVMJ 99g wrote:


Having been assaulted by two 'young people' in the garage at the back
of my house, during which (being aware of the issues) I neither
reacted or retaliated, I count myself lucky that they didn't concoct a
story about the reverse being true. There were were no independent
witnesses, and so their uncorroborated word as 'young people' would
have been accepted without question, as is the normal practice.

As they never surfaced before 10:30 on weekend mornings, I made sure
that any outside work I wanted to do, such as car servicing or
gardening, was done before that time, at which point I made myself
scarce. Taking leave and doing jobs during the week wasn't on, as one
couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't bunk off from school.

As they used to congregate in the area of the garages, it meant I
could never use my motorcycle without risking being accosted by them
on my return, as there was no way of seeing if they were present. So
for a year or two, until they discovered the world outside the area
contained people of the opposite gender, I was a prisoner in my own
house. Again, I count myself lucky that they only scratched my car
four times, broke five radio aerials and two door mirrors, rendered
the door-locks inoperative with matchsticks and slashed the tyres
once. Young people need protection, did you say?

Well done! You've mastered the art of cut & paste.
What's next, a black belt in Origami?
--
;-)
73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk

Roy Lewallen July 11th 05 09:11 PM

Reg Edwards wrote:

Roy, I'm thinking of occasionally changing 'old wives' to
'charlatans'. It may sometimes better fit the circumstances.
----
Reg.


Oh, boy! Then maybe before long I'll be able to add "RC" to my
impressive and growing list of titles!

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Spike July 11th 05 09:33 PM

Frank wrote:

I am not aware of a damper ever being considered a storage device.
Capacitance is equivalent to mass, Inductance is equivalent to a spring, and
resistance equivalent to a damper. Am I missing something?


Nope. But the OP, now posting as 'Polymath', had said "The same
analogy applies to springs and to shock absorbers; the spring stores
energy when stretched; the shock-absorber stores energy when
compressed. Both the spring and shock absorber will return energy at
some time and this exhibit reactance!"

But the shock-absorber stores...nothing, and can return nothing. It
therefore cannot have the mechanical equivalent of reactance, and
cannot therefore be a part of a frequency-determining mechanism. He
had failed to appreciate the property of mass - a rather fundamental
point. That is why I said he was an idiot - a claim I see no reason to
change.

from
Aero Spike

Spike July 11th 05 09:35 PM

Frank wrote:

Is this what you are talking about?

"The same analogy applies to springs and to shock absorbers;
the spring stores energy when stretched; the shock-absorber
stores energy when compressed. Both the spring and shock
absorber will return energy at some time and this exhibit reactance!"

I think we have been at cross purposes. The above is nonsense.


Exactly! That was the point, repeatedly made by others, at the time of
the original posting.

from
Aero Spike

Frank July 11th 05 09:42 PM

"Spike" wrote in message
...
Frank wrote:

Is this what you are talking about?

"The same analogy applies to springs and to shock absorbers;
the spring stores energy when stretched; the shock-absorber
stores energy when compressed. Both the spring and shock
absorber will return energy at some time and this exhibit reactance!"

I think we have been at cross purposes. The above is nonsense.


Exactly! That was the point, repeatedly made by others, at the time of
the original posting.

from
Aero Spike


Which is exactly what you said in your original posting. The fact is I
should have read it more carefully.

Regards,

Frank



Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 11th 05 11:07 PM

Beanie's Bum Chum Nedlar wrote:
How many bags do you get through in a month?

What's your problem? Frustrated now Beanie's got a job during the week?
Never mind, I don't suppose it will last long.
--
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73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk

Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 11th 05 11:42 PM

Beanie's Bum Chum Nedlar wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:07:59 GMT, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI
[ pass another bag ] wrote:



What's your problem? Frustrated now Beanie's got a job during the week?
Never mind, I don't suppose it will last long.




What's your problem? Run out of bags?

No, I've got plenty. Do you want some?
--
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73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk

Bob Nielsen July 12th 05 01:34 AM

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:52:25 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:46:13 +0100, "Gerard Lynch"
wrote:


[snip]
Guns aren't an issue here. We're not allowed to have them. Nobody much (as
in about 90% of the population) cares. We care about things you folks have
never even heard about instead (fancy an ID card?)


Over here in 'Merica they're called "Social Security Cards." Every
newborn baby is required to have one.


And they say something like "not to be used for identification" right on
the cards. The way things are going, we will probably all need to carry
passports before long.

Gerard Lynch July 12th 05 02:01 AM


"Bob Nielsen" wrote in message
. net...
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:52:25 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:


Over here in 'Merica they're called "Social Security Cards." Every
newborn baby is required to have one.


And they say something like "not to be used for identification" right on
the cards. The way things are going, we will probably all need to carry
passports before long.


Yeah. They say all sorts of things over here too.

Internal passports... nice Tsarist idea, kept up by the KGB.

This must be boring people who haven't killfiled us all who are looking for
a discussion on aerials or electrical engineering (don't worry about being
off topic on uk.radio.amateur - *we* all are) so I'd best QRT on this here
breaker channel.

--
73

Gerry G0RTN
Vanity Page at http://www.gerrylynch.co.uk



Cecil Moore July 12th 05 02:30 PM

Reg Edwards wrote:

"Cecil Moore" said,
And, for the record, it wasn't me who said that.


As it was quite true you just as well could have said it. So I didn't
take the trouble to correct the minor error.


Reg, IMO, only a naive person would ever use the words,
"absolutely sure". :-)
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Richard Fry July 12th 05 05:34 PM

"Reg Edwards"
And as usual, when the slightest difference of opinion occurs,
somebody invariably feels impelled to go off at a tangent and drag in
something they feel more at home with, such as VHF and UHF TV
transmitting antennas, and, very soon, if we are not careful,

_________

Admit it, Reg. You are just ready to pounce on me after I revealed the
error of your belief that George Brown made a mistake by not measuring
ground conductivity in the work for his landmark 1937 IRE paper (that you
hadn't read) about ground systems for MW verticals. Don't pout.

RF


Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 12th 05 07:35 PM

Beanie's bum chum Nedlar wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:42:36 GMT, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI
wrote:



What's your problem? Run out of bags?


No, I've got plenty. Do you want some?



No, your need is greater than mine.

I'm not so sure, you must need a massive spew bag after a session with
Beanie.
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73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk

Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 12th 05 11:50 PM

Beanie's Bum Chum Nedlar wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:35:52 GMT, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI
[ pass the bag ] wrote:



I'm not so sure, you must need a massive spew bag after a session with
Beanie.




Even that would pale into insignificance compared to your need.

I'm OK thanks, I just turn the lights off, you must need a gas mask.
--
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73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk

Polymath July 13th 05 07:18 PM

You have to make allowances for Mrs.Nugatory. As always,
I responded very quickly to a genuine request for help, but
responded to the lead given by the questioner who
mentioned spring/damper rather than spring/mass, and so
I responded off-the-cuff without too much forethought.

Better a quick response than none at all, or a response that
had the hallmarks of a 13-year old mind that requires a
literal meaning for everything, as does Mrs.Nugatory!

I acknowledged the error in a subsequent posting but Mrs. Nugatory
is a chronic paranoid obsessive who latches onto every thing that I say,
and hounds the thing to death, as she is doing below, many months
after the ephemeral chit-chat has ceased to have any relevance.

For example, if you seek out the time that I alerted Usenet users to
the availability of cheap dehumidifiers, Mrs.Nugatory managed to spin out
over 50 pages of insistence that I knew nothing about them!

Mentally deranged, or what!

"Frank" wrote in message
news:99iAe.145698$on1.40186@clgrps13...
"Spike" wrote in message
...
Polly parrotted:

Actually, just did a quick webbing and found enough to
realise that the claims are founded upon feet of clay.....

1. You do not separately excite the E and H fields because
if you excite an E field, you get a corresponding H field, and
vice-versa,
even if it is your intention to excite separately.


Can this be the same idiot who thought that a spring/damper
combination was the mechanical equivalent of a coil and capacitor, on
the grounds that they both exhibited resonance?

from
Aero Spike


The spring and damper can be exactly model as an electrical analog; as can
virtually any physical system. As a reference refer to "Dynamics of
Physical Circuits and Systems", by Lindsay and Katz at Concordia
University, Montreal. ISBN 0-916460-21-5 published by Matrix of
Beaverton OR.

Frank




Polymath July 13th 05 08:14 PM

"Absolutely unique"

"Utterly obliterated"

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
Reg, IMO, only a naive person would ever use the words,
"absolutely sure". :-)




Polymath July 13th 05 08:16 PM

Which accounts for the place-name "The Butts" to be found
in many towns.

"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message
...
Wow! Check your history. Once it was a requirement for persons in
England
to be armed. Practice was also compulsory.




Polymath July 13th 05 08:21 PM

Pound = Pound Weight, mass of one pound, acceleration (due to gravity)
of 32 ft/sec^2

Poundal = mass of one pound, acceleration of 1 ft/sec^2

(Cue Mrs.Nugatory to dive in with a 13-year-old's ridiculous
insistence on literal detail?)

Pound, Money = sort of like a dollar, but twice as valuable and more robust.

"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message
...
I continue to be in awe of MEs who
always seem to know whether the "pounds" they are talking of are
sort-of-like mass, or sort-of-like force, or money.




Fred W4JLE July 13th 05 08:51 PM

Actually $1.76 as of today, but used to be worth $2.40.
Any country too politically correct to call a terrorist a terrorist is not
long for the world.


Tis a real shame the spawn of a great people that endured so much with the
"stiff upper lip" are a bunch of wimps!

"Polymath" wrote in message
...

Pound, Money = sort of like a dollar, but twice as valuable and more

robust.




ZZZZPK July 13th 05 09:12 PM

"Fred W4JLE" wrote:

: Actually $1.76 as of today, but used to be worth $2.40.
: Any country too politically correct to call a terrorist a terrorist is not
: long for the world.


So... in a NON-POLITICAL way please describe those people of the mid
to late 1700's who went around shooting soldiers who wore REDCOATS and
GOVERNED a land the that was at one stage part of the GREAT BRITISH
EMPIRE and had as one of its main cities BOSTON ?





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