Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low of 14.5C and it's presently 23.1C, mostly clear with a howling, gusty wind. There was 2.9mm in the gauge @ 0900. (we'll have to see if my rain gauge 'amount' will get passed the filter ) ((Ha! No, it didn't))

Everything was accomplished yesterday, including finally stacking the cut blackwood limbs. The very welcome rain started around 1500, just in time for my Doctor's appointment = all's well in that department.

What with this wind and no word, yet, on the hay delivery, I'll simply have an indoor day today.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

The stuff I'm designing for would melt the aluminum to your head in about a second flat! You think your little 1 kW microwave oven can cook a dinner plate pretty quick? Try 100 kW directed through a high-gain horn antenna! Not usually something you want to be anywhere near, when they power on.

One of the more amusing problems we watch our customers deal with, is setting fire to the absorber cones in their anechoic chambers, or to the plywood coverings many try to use to weather-proof their outdoor stations.

I've told before the story of one of our customers killing a coworker, when accidentally energizing an antenna with a man out on the test pad. He was about 300 feet away from the antenna, as I recall. Death was slow, something like 3 days, due to many cooked organs.

I have a question for you.
I've read about Thomas Edison (DC advocate) and George Westinghouse (AC) & how George won...later 1800s supplying electricity to homes. Why 60hz though? I have some old military equipment at the homeplace and (from memory) transformers were operated on 440hz. That higher frequency meant two transformers, one 60hz, other 440hz the 440 would be way smaller, same current rating.
60hz is standard now but shame we didn't start with higher frequency.
I've always wanted to make a very high voltage Tesla coil, plans to make one.
Nikola Tesla and his Wardenclyffe Tower is fascinating.