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General Radio Discussion / Re: KIFM is building a transmitter in Nevada

« on: September 13, 2016, 1503 UTC »

...self hating?  Well beat myself with a sardine...

Oh BTW... pass the 151 rum OK?

Praise Bob and pass the bottle...

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General Radio Discussion / Re: KIFM is building a transmitter in Nevada

« on: September 12, 2016, 1946 UTC »

Good enough, just as long as they don't broadcast Brother Stier...

Can You say blechhhh

168

General Radio Discussion / Re: Sunspot cycle 24: Smallest cycle in 100 years?

« on: September 12, 2016, 1929 UTC »

So where does this leave me?

I'm a graduate of T.I.T. aka The "Timtron Institute of Technology"

And I belong to the " I Felta Thigh" frat...

It's not like I...

Damn I forgot what I was going to say...

Sorry...

<sigh>

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Sunspot cycle 24: Smallest cycle in 100 years?

« on: September 11, 2016, 1903 UTC »

Thanks Chris... :-)

Some time someone should write up a short blurb on propagation conditions from the view point of folks like we SWL'ers.

It's all well and good that the Government does these studies but what the hell are the good of them?

I know computers...  I've worked with some big ones IBM360 etc, I know how they are limited and you can't get a good working model without all of the variables... can't happen, but these reports toss out so many known variables it isn't funny... not to mention the unknown variables.

Something like the Sun, weather and climate just don't work well with computer models... I know because I've been there... no joke...

Point is, I am sick and tired of these jackasses that think computer models are the be all and end all of everything.  Have these people ever studied 'rounding errors'...  In science your best guess might work and often does but is it correct enough to make the computer models work right?  I think not, in fact I know not...

<sigh>  I'm tired... to hell with it...

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General Radio Discussion / Sunspot cycle 24: Smallest cycle in 100 years?

« on: September 11, 2016, 1517 UTC »

Another one... here's the first paragraph or so:



[
1
]  Predicting the peak amplitude of the sunspot cycle is a
key goal of solar-terrestrial physics. The precursor method
currently favored for such predictions is based on the
dynamo model in which large-scale polar fields on the
decline of the 11-year solar cycle are converted to toroidal
(sunspot) fields during the subsequent cycle


The rest of the document will be found here:

http://www.leif.org/research/Cycle%2024%20Smallest%20100%20years.pdf

Enjoy

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General Radio Discussion / The Solar Cycle 24 Consensus Prediction (from NOAA et al)

« on: September 11, 2016, 1357 UTC »

This is a 15 page document that I figured some of you might want to read.  My biggest question is... Why didn't they ask us what the hell is going on.  

Please give a comment on this one... (as he said with that stupid grin when he suspects something is wrong)



"The Panel is today releasing
predictions for
•
The impending solar minimum
–
Marking onset of Cycle 24
–
Provided basis for the other predictions
•
The peak sunspot number expected for
Cycle 24
•
The time of the peak sunspot number
•
What follows is the consensus of the panel"


http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/u2/Solar%20Cycle%20Progression%20and%20Prediction.pdf

SO?  What do you think?  Are our tax dollars working for us with the computer projections?

Keep in mind the theory of Chaos ...    

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Huh? / Re: Android, still leading the way in smart phone innovation

« on: September 09, 2016, 1623 UTC »

"... shortly after Nathan Dornacher and his family returned from a from a yard sale."

Makes me feel better...  These guys aren't any better than I am at proof reading....

Happy happy joy joy
 

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Huh? / Re: Fred Hellerman, Last of the Weavers Folk Group, Dies at 89

« on: September 09, 2016, 1616 UTC »

I've got a copy of 'Goodnight Irene" at home by them...  on a 78 RPM of course...

 

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General Radio Discussion / Re: GPS Under Attack as Crooks, Rogue Workers Wage Electronic War

« on: September 08, 2016, 1515 UTC »

GPS isn't the only thing that can cause a lumber truck to end up in a swamp.

A number of years ago the 'guys' were trucking fir logs down a certain area with a very sharp curve in the road.  If you took the curve easy you would be fine but if you took it hard and lost control you and your truck would end up in one hell of a swamp.

To make a long story short, there was a pretty little Lady that lived just a ways before that curve.  Now this Lady had a very very adequate bosom and she would sit out by her mail box and when she heard one of those trucks a coming she would make sure the trucker got a very good bouncy look at two of the best nekkid yahooos those guys ever saw...

Sure enough... another one bites the swamp...

BTW folks, Ladies can go topless in public in Maine...  There is no law against it...

So it ain't just the GPS that causes problems   

175

Huh? / Re: Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book

« on: September 02, 2016, 1029 UTC »

Come on folks... get ur free copy at;

https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript

176

Huh? / Re: China’s new quantum satellite will try to teleport data outside the bounds of sp

« on: September 02, 2016, 1021 UTC »

I figured it out...

Whatever China is building it will soon be on sale on E-Bay for ten dollars with free shipping.  Damn yet another RF producing pile-o-crap!

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Huh? / Re: The DXers' Candidate

« on: September 02, 2016, 1016 UTC »

I've heard stories about drones flying about with mini-cameras on board checking out the Ladies sun bathing... 

Now whom in our little group would do such a thing?  Not I because I got my own little Lady to look at...  so who could it be?  Any ideas???

178

General Radio Discussion / Re: Astronomers have picked up a strong radio signal from space

« on: September 02, 2016, 1005 UTC »

More reruns of 'The Lucy Show'

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Huh? / Re: The state of US media today...

« on: September 01, 2016, 1633 UTC »

Is it any wonder why I don't watch TV?  Honest guys I don't,  I read books instead and not the popular BS.  I just got so tired of being told how I should think.  I leave that to the other guy.  I guess that makes me a rebel outcast...  So be it... <sigh>


If the 'news media' would just tell it like it really is instead of dumbing stuff down to a 6th grade level or making so many lies to CYA some big shot that is paying their way through life. 

The 'news media is nothing more than a political outlet (aka: rectum) for whomever is lining their pockets with $$$.  Whatever some political phool will make money on is their thing...  As John Lennon said; "Give me some truth!"

But it has become so bad now that if the general population heard the truth just once...  they, most likely, would keel over with a heart attack.

The politicos make folks focus on some idiotic 'doomsday' situation that has no... absolutely no,  standing in fact nor logic...  What have we become?

Sorry folks... I'm in one of my moods.  Time for me to hit the books on quantum physics again...  AHhhhhh  Math.... goooooooddd!

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Huh? / Re: The DXers' Candidate

« on: September 01, 2016, 1617 UTC »

Heck, I was planning to send up a drone that would hit those plasma junk heaps with a blast of EMP...

That will fix 'em