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3 years ago @ Ham Radio . me - Anatomy of a low frequ... · 1 reply · +1 points

At least one list says that the Culpeper NDB is decommissioned, but I'm pretty certain I'm still copying MSQ on 351. As a local, can you confirm that it's still beeping? :)

4 years ago @ Ham Radio . me - Copper efficiency afte... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good conductor: fine.

Good insulator: also fine.

Mediocre conductor: that's when you have loss problems!

Looks like the oxide counts as a good insulator.

6 years ago @ Ham Radio . me - Diamond NR770HBNMO vs.... · 0 replies · +1 points

Okay, that's pretty handy. Basically it looks like there's certain feedline lengths where the RF will prefer to slosh around in the feedline/car body/transformer system instead of actually going into the antenna where it belongs... but you have to get unlucky, and in the remainder of cases, the antenna will do its job (but probably with a little bit of pattern distortion, which we're already expecting for a car). Does that sound about right?

6 years ago @ Ham Radio . me - Diamond NR770HBNMO vs.... · 2 replies · +1 points

I'd love to see you do the test for this (or maybe you already did and I can't find the article?) It's especially of interest to the mag-mount crowd, because it's not like we can easily "un-ground" them.

9 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Avatar':... · 0 replies · +1 points

Heart of Darkness yes, but even moreso a certain famous loose adaptation. So many of Chey's lines are parodying Dennis Hopper's character from Apocalypse Now, it's very deliberate.

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