"Ed" wrote in message
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"Charlie" wrote in :

TY Ed....President Bush has authorized emergency disaster funds for our
county due to "increased winds!"




Yeah, I heard. Winds gusting to 59 mph. Just a few months ago we
had
winds gusting to 70 here on the Pacific North West coast. Wonder why no
one got disaster funds?



Ed

yea??
well my missus just let rip
it messured 156 on the rectum scale.
do we get a disaster funds?
:)

What will it take to satisfy you folks? How about free airfare to
Mississippi and a personal inspection of my station? For Pete's
sake!!!!!


Yah know, Charlie, in retrospect, the only thing that bothers me about
your installation is the one guy point as shown in 100_5463.jpg . It
just looks a bit unsubstantial in the picture. I would grant that maybe in
person, it might seem better.... however, thanks for the offer for free
airfare, but I prefer the temps here on the Oregon coast.


Ed K7AAT

Charlie wrote:
Hi Larry,
I intentionally posted the very same identical mage twice since there was
no damage and no change in the image even had I taken one after the storm
cleared. There was no damage here at all to the station in any way.

Good to hear, Charlie, and thanks for the clarification.

I NEVER realized my photographic prowess would cause such a stir which
included accusations of "misrepresentation" "spoofing" "nice try" and
comments about my "**** tower" "crappy installation" etc.

I remind myself that we are amateurs, after all. As such, we might do
things differently from professionals or self-proclaimed professionals.

I also remind myself that this is Usenet, and it attracts all sorts of
opinions and posting styles. Not all of them are worth reading or replying.

73
N1POP

Good photo,

I don't like the angle between the other two guy cables,
almost 150 deg. or more !

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger !

Charlie wrote:

Hi Cecil,
Here is the link (again) to the "bona fide" - A F T E R - photo just today.

But ..I can hear it already.."You already repaired the damage!"

1. http://deepsouthnet.net/images/100_5512.jpg

--

Charlie
Deep South 2 Meter SSB Net
www.deepsouthnet.net

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Charlie wrote:
What will it take to satisfy you folks?

Probably a bona fide after photo.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

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In article ,
"Charlie" wrote:

Hi Cecil,
Here is the link (again) to the "bona fide" - A F T E R - photo just today.

But ..I can hear it already.."You already repaired the damage!"

1. http://deepsouthnet.net/images/100_5512.jpg

looks touched up

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:16:02 -0500, (Richard
Harrison) wrote:

Another example is found in high pressurre gas pipelines. Their internal
pressure cycles and this tends to enlarge microscopic cracks, if any, in
the pipe. Pipes are hydrostatically tested before placed in service (no
energy storage in water as it is incompressible) so a pipe blow out of
water won`t likely hurt a bystander. After the pipe is put in service it
is retested each year.

A major problem for pipelines are where both corrision and cracks are
within limits but close to each other. The pipeline folks have been
analyzing and fixing those for over a decade now.

Retesting is not done by pressure, as far as I know, but by sending
"pigs" down the line to analyze the pipeline.

Tony

Tony wrote:
"(Pipeline) Retesting is not done by pressure, as far as I know, but ny
dending "pigs" down the line to analyze the pipeline."

No surprise. Hydrostatic testing pressurized pipes to maximum pressure
or slightly more to prove their safety. This itself tends to aggravate
cracks.

A pig is a carriage (usually wheeless and propelled by differential
pressure) through the pipe. They serve many purposes. They can be used
for video inspections, ultrasonic tests, or X-ray review of a pipe.

When I was a pipeliner, they were often blown through a pipe to clear it
of trash and liquids.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:44:23 -0500, "Charlie"
wrote:

There are no distortions Ken. The tower looks the same the day before Dennis
as it does now the day after. The WHOLE POINT in using 2 identical photos
was to illustrate that there IS NO DIFFERENCE after the storm.

I have been on Usenet for 20 years or more and it is always the
same....people just wait in the wings to take pot shots at others. I posted
a link to the tower photos and all I got was ridicule and cuss words.

Now that it survived the affects of hurricane Dennis I get accusations that
Dennis never even came near my home.
You guys can all go fish..or any other "F" word you might be able to think
of.

Sorry to rob you all of the splendor of viewing my new tower down on the
ground.

You ****ers are all a bunch of real sick *******s.

What a bunch of passive-aggressive crap. If you really wanted
to make the point, you would have posted an honest "after" shot, not
your smartass little duplicate.

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 00:48:50 GMT, Ed
wrote:

"Charlie" wrote in :

TY Ed....President Bush has authorized emergency disaster funds for our
county due to "increased winds!"




Yeah, I heard. Winds gusting to 59 mph. Just a few months ago we had
winds gusting to 70 here on the Pacific North West coast. Wonder why no
one got disaster funds?



Because less than a third of your population is named Bubba.



Ed

Me thinks charlie is a kook.

With all this attention, one might think that someone in his county
might hear of this and take a second look at the engineering. It might
be true that being in the boonies, nobody really cared at the time when
Charlie said he was goin' to put up a tower, But now that it is there,
looking like a ride at CB World, they might want to review it. We also
need to keep an eye on the SK list. Something could happen to innocent
folks if it falls the wrong direction, and in my experience there is no
right direction for a tower to fall.