[OZAPRS] smart meters ?

[Ray Wells]

Previous experience of adding a 30m dipole to an existing 20/40/80m unit 
was not good. 30m doesn't have a harmonic relationship and it presented 
weird and wonderful reactance to the feedpoint. ymmv

Ray vk2tv

On 11/12/10 11:19, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> Lol, though monitors aren't allowed in bins, or even hard waste 
> roadside pickup :(
>
> I have to say I do like the dell service, where if you order a 
> computer with a monitor (can just be a laptop), they pickup the old 
> monitor for free and dispose of it :)   Though they had a heart attack 
> when we asked if we could dispose of 60 21" sony's through that :-p   
> Actually, they had enough of a heart attack when we asked about 
> ordering 60 LCD's as 'spares' for our existing machines.. ;)
>
> -_DG
>
> Off to build a 40/30/20/10m fan dipole this arvo after work, will be 
> interesting to see how much better that is than my TEV-1 vertical!
>
>
> On 11/12/2010, at 10:54 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
>
>> If I had a garbage service I'd toss the monitor in the bottom of the 
>> wheelie bin and it would just disappear but, no garbage service means 
>> a visit to the tip. I wonder how many monitors my big dam will hold <g>
>>
>>
>> Ray vk2tv
>>
>> On 11/12/10 10:43, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>>> On 11/12/2010, at 10:38 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
>>>
>>>> You mentioned monitors. I recently took two dead CRT monitors to 
>>>> the tip (I don't have a garbage service) and was informed there is 
>>>> a (NSW) government enforced $5.00 fee per monitor to leave them at 
>>>> the tip. How's that for a hidden tax? I wonder how many dead 
>>>> monitors will now be given swimming lessons?
>>>
>>> Wow, that's not bad - ACT govt charges $50/monitor to dump them at 
>>> the tip.. - when we replaced our 21" sony CRT's with 19" LCD's back 
>>> in 2005 (worked out we'd pay back the costs of replacing 3x21" 500W 
>>> crt's with 3x19" 50W LCD's per Desk, in just under 6 months!), we 
>>> ended up shoving them all into the dumpster out the back over a 
>>> couple of weeks..
>>>
>>> --DG
>>>
>>>
>>> Damien Gardner Jnr
>>> VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
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