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I've been plagued for some years now by a "water
softener" that puts up drifting jaggies every few kHz all the way up the
HF spectrum to at least 30 MHz. The only redeeming factor is that they drift so
much they don't jam me for long. The culprit is owned by a little old
lady who is a great friend of mine and lives about 500 metres away. She is
absolutely convinced it works and I haven't the heart to tell her it's rubbish.
Our water here is neutral and doesn't need softening but she got talked
into it by a water heating "engineer" who mended a broken pipe for her. She
has what I call the "elephant-gun syndrome". For those who don't know it:
A man is seen carrying a huge "elephant gun" around
Victorian London. After a while his friends get curious and ask him why he's
always carrying it. "To keep London free of elephants, of course", he
replies. "But there aren't any elephants in London", they tell him. His
retort? "There you are - it works!!!"
There's an awful lot of that about these
days!
Walter G3JKV.
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