[OZAPRS] smart meters ?

Ray Wells vk2tv at exemail.com.au
Sun Dec 12 06:30:40 EST 2010


Gee, I didn't get that technical <grin>

Ray vk2tv

On 11/12/10 23:51, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> Ewwww, ray was correct - swr on 30m would be 38 (609+j895) on 30m, due 
> to the other band dipoles not being full wave etc on 30m..  Ok, will 
> be a 40(+15)/20/10 dipole then ;)  I had contemplated shoving 5m on 
> the bottom, but it might look kinda rediculous in the middle..
>
> --DG
>
> On 11/12/2010 11:35 AM, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>> ooh, really?  I'm building one based from here 
>> (http://www.hamuniverse.com/multidipole.html)  - yard isn't big 
>> enough for 40m of dipole for 80m band, so having already built the 
>> centre (http://www.rendrag.net/wpg2?g2_itemId=11755), I thought I'd 
>> just make the top band 40m, and add 30 in the middle..  Might shove 
>> it through MMANA first to see what happens, before I finish cutting 
>> and assembling that behemoth, and then pulling it up between the masts..
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> DG
>>
>> On 11/12/2010, at 11:26 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>> rendrag at rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net> - 
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