X-GM-THRID: 1214229450366598974 X-Gmail-Labels: rsgb lf X-Gmail-Received: 14c5643756b07c0c999784698f5507726cc1c3a2 Delivered-To: daveyxm@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.250.20 with SMTP id x20cs904436qbh; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.163.19 with SMTP id l19mr11300837nfe; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id p20si17986094nfc.2006.09.13.15.42.01; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1GNdOS-0007id-Kb for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:39:44 +0100 Received: from [193.82.116.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1GNdOS-0007iU-6u for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:39:44 +0100 Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.20]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GNdOP-0007FQ-ER for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:39:44 +0100 Received: from fwd32.aul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1GNdNQ-0006Xn-04; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:38:40 +0200 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (V+p4joZXQeIHQ7dHBU3dfnf55AMD8utGkm8ngZXV3hL42NCEGWDZsi@[84.145.248.155]) by fwd32.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1GNdNH-1GExm40; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:38:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: hajo.brandt.dj1zb@t-online.de (Hans-Joachim Brandt) References:<20060913180907.41330.qmail@web86502.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <001401c6d762$4ff4adc0$0100a8c0@W1KW> In-Reply-To:<001401c6d762$4ff4adc0$0100a8c0@W1KW> To: X-Mailer: T-Online eMail 5.00.0036 Date: 13 Sep 2006 22:07 GMT Message-ID: <1GNdNH-1GExm40@fwd32.sul.t-online.de> X-ID: V+p4joZXQeIHQ7dHBU3dfnf55AMD8utGkm8ngZXV3hL42NCEGWDZsi X-TOI-MSGID: 467840f7-eac3-487a-91c7-c685b3559aa9 X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,AWL=-0.523,HTML_60_70=0.027,HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 Subject: Re: LF: RE: Strange detector Content-Type: Multipart/Alternative; Boundary="__Next_1158185254_Part291__" X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=5.0 tests=HTML_40_50,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4339 --__Next_1158185254_Part291__ Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Dear Geri et al,=20 this christmas story had been described by the former editor of DL-QTC, Fr= itz K=FChne, some decades ago. Living in Garmisch, he had to find a reflexi= on area on one of the mountains around Germisch to get out of this valley v= ia VHF. His antenna was on a balcony, and the christmas tree too! 73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB =20 "Holger 'Geri', DK8KW" schrieb:=20 Hi, years ago I heard the story about the wife of a ham who had a christmas= tree on the balcony. This was one of the first christmas trees with electr= ic light bulbs, all put in series so that when you rotate one to turn it of= f all others are switched off, too. You can imagine how surprised this woma= n was when she rotated one bulb to switch off all the lights -- and suddenl= y some of the lights went off, others stayed on. Well, she rotated one of t= he ones that were on ... and at the other side ot the christmas tree some o= ther bulbs started to lit. Well, for us hams the solution is simple: her hu= sband operated AM on 2 meters and by disconencting some of the light bulbs = from the series circuit a dipole antenna for 144 MHz with a different light= bulb was created. Rotating this one and disconnecting it, another dipole w= as created and so forth ... Best 73 Geri, DK8KW / DI2BO --__Next_1158185254_Part291__ Content-Type: Text/HTML; Charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable T-Online eMail
Dear Geri=20 et al,
 
this christmas story = had been=20 described by the former editor of DL-QTC, Fritz K=FChne, some decades ago. = Living=20 in Garmisch, he had to find a reflexion area on one of the mountains around= =20 Germisch to get out of this valley via VHF. His antenna was on a balcony, a= nd=20 the christmas tree too!
 
73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB
 
 
 
  "Holger 'Geri', DK8KW" <geri@dk8kw.de> schri= eb:=20
Hi,
 
years ago I heard the story about the wife= of a ham=20 who had a christmas tree on the balcony. This was one of the first christma= s=20 trees with electric light bulbs, all put in series so that when you rotate = one=20 to turn it off all others are switched off, too.
 
You can imagine how surprised this woman w= as when=20 she rotated one bulb to switch off all the lights -- and suddenly some of t= he=20 lights went off, others stayed on. Well, she rotated one of the ones that w= ere=20 on ... and at the other side ot the christmas tree some other bulbs started= to=20 lit.
 
Well, for us hams the solution is simple: = her=20 husband operated AM on 2 meters and by disconencting some of the light bulb= s=20 from the series circuit a dipole antenna for 144 MHz with a different light= bulb=20 was created. Rotating this one and disconnecting it, another dipole was cre= ated=20 and so forth ...
 
Best 73
 
Geri, DK8KW / DI2BO
 
 
 
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