Recent content by Captain Kilowatt

Teflon is white. We use Teflon O-rings at work and they are all white.

The problem is that it is not 8 inches per mile. It is 8 inches per mile SQUARED. At one mile it is 8 inches however at two miles it is 32 inches and three miles it is 72 inches thus confirming my statement that a six foot man can only see 3 miles to the horizon over flat terrain. This is...

I wouldn't say you are hallucinating but I would say you are thinking wishfully. The curvature of the Earth is by far the limiting factor and while I am not 100% sure of the rate of curvature I am sure it is more than 8 inches/mile. Everything I see says a six foot man can see to the horizon at...

They think it is unsafe to take one hand off the wheel to use a 2-way radio, yet it is fine........if not encouraged, to buy a Tesla where you can take BOTH hands off the wheel, have a nap, and it will drive itself to your destination. Damn......I hate being born with common sense and a high...

LOL That IS the parasitic suppressor. It consists of a carbon resistor somewhere around 40-60 ohms and the coil shunting it. Easy to check. Lift the anode cap and remove one end of the coil from the resistor to measure the resistor.

LOL Check out the specs on a Trylon T-500. No worries about the legs bending. It is 18 inches wide at the top and 42 inches wide at the bottom with HEAVY 60 degree angle legs, not tubular. It will support 52 square feet at the top in a 70 mph wind. The cable attachment point will be about 25...

Better follow up that rescue tape with some regular electrical tape. It is not UV resistant. I found that out when I found that it almost completely disappeared after a few years. I now cover it with Scotch-88 electrical tape and it has lasted well over a decade.............and still counting.

Back in my younger days I would put up and take down my 40 foot free standing tower and all the antennas myself. I had a gin pole for erecting the tower or taking it down and would install a three element tribander, a six element yagi for 6m and an eleven element yagi for 2m all by myself...

Why would you ever need two different impedances available in the same antenna? 75 ohm is used in television and that is about it. Any impedance issues due to phasing can be overcome with proper coaxial cable lines.

A twenty year old dead thread.

Anybody have any plans for viewing the eclipse on Monday? Are you even in or near the path of totality? I said WTF and took Monday and Tuesday off and will be headed to somewhere along the north shore of New Brunswick Monday morning to be dead centre of the path of totality. It's about 3 to 4...

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I agree with above. This has nothing to do with the radios you mentioned. It is all about cell jammers and wifi jammers that have seemed to sprung up everywhere illegally.

Any of them will work, including homemade cable assemblies. Been there, done that.