If you had met me face to face you might have a different opinion. With posts I have a chance to think about what I'm about to say. This gives me time to tone down a rude response, which doesn't exist when your mouth is engaged. Still, you have to try to be right.

 

If you had met me face to face you might have a different opinion. With posts I have a chance to think about what I'm about to say. This gives me time to tone down a rude response, which doesn't exist when your mouth is engaged. Still, you have to try to be right.

A sharp tongue is a tell of an acute mind... if that's the case, then you have a gift... all you have to do is learn how to use it...

 

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3145281/john-mcafee-suicide-whackd-tattoo-didnt-kill-himself-tweet/

John McAfee had ‘WHACKD’ tattoo and once said if he was found dead in ‘suicide’ – he ‘DIDN’T kill himself’

Search youtube for How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus

RIP

 

He has provided quite a bit of entertainment over the years. It was just a few days ago I Googled him to see why he had been so quiet of late and saw that he was to be extradited from Spain. Didn't even know they had him locked up, always figured he was headed to an asylum to be locked away. The old boy had some serious demons chasing him about...

 

Cut-down conifer becomes Sheffield attraction after neighbour dispute

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-sheffield-attraction-after-neighbour-dispute

 

Cut-down conifer becomes Sheffield attraction after neighbour dispute

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-sheffield-attraction-after-neighbour-dispute

Now I finally know who's been trimming trees in the local forest.

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/our-pl...-know-what-causes-it?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

Ganzflicker Experience (google.com)

 

Mum in hysterics after set of £245 car mats she bought for her hubby’s birthday arrived smaller than palm of her HAND
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/15304942/mum-hysterics-245-car-mats-smaller-palm-hand/

 

Hams get bored too...

 

I'd like to know the basic math behind that slinky antenna...

 

Usually, a half or full wave dipole. So, circumference of slinky x number of turns. With an antenna tuner you can make just about anything resonate w/ low SWR albeit not that well. When roller inductor tuners became popular in the 70-80s an aluminum lawn chair was a common "ham shack trick".

 

Imagine waking to the sound of something in the kitchen one night and finding this...

This elephant walks the streets of this small town nightly in search of food.

 

Reminds me of that corny old Christmas cracker joke :
"How can you tell if an elephant's been in your fridge?"
"From the footprints in the butter."

 

Imagine waking to the sound of something in the kitchen one night and finding this...

This elephant walks the streets of this small town nightly in search of food.

Never happens in my neighborhood. One of my first electronic circuits was an elephant repeller. Still works to this day.

 

Dat's one big ass rat!

 

@shortbus I think I can help you find customers for that. Some travel required.

 

I'd like to know the basic math behind that slinky antenna...

It's a helical antenna a rubber ducky on steroids




Ref. 17: "Directional helical antennas" [slinky 2-element beam], I. Kapustin (UA0RW), in "Antentop", Nr. 12, 1-2010; reprinted from "Radio", Nr. 7, 1958, pp. 34-35
Ref. 18: "Helical Antennas", Howard King, Jimmy Wong, Chapter 13, 24 pp. in "Antenna Engineering Handbook", Richard C. Johnson, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Ref. 19: "Tunable Spiral Dipole Antenna", Sidney Arrow, US patent Nr. 3,858,220, December 31, 1974.

 

https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/en/about/rd/research/highlights/others/seaaerial.page

New "SeaAerial" technology that uses a seawater plume as an antenna