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Boston itself is quite small (only 750K). I'd much rather visit Boston than NYC.

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You don't remember the '60s either, huh. ;-)

You don't fool me. I was there too. ;-)

bunch of a*hole anyways.

power.

loud.

me

I thought you would have had it worse down there that year. We'd just moved into AL and we had a rock wall collapse. Twice. The builder did a really crap job of repairing it.

Visited both in the last few months.. have to say I like both cities, though they're generally a PITA for visitors with cars. Cities with one or more good Universities tend to be decent places to visit or live (Wayne State might be an exception).

There are a few nice places in LA County- Pasadena, Westwood/Santa Monica etc. but there is also an awful lot of sprawling sun-bleached wasteland. The area I lived in some years ago is currently over 90% Hispanic (near where the B2 was secretly developed).. I found it fine.

Why change to 50? Reminds me that my grandfather was taught in the old country that a right angle was 100 degrees, not 90.

Called "gradians" or grads for short, no?

Why change to 50? Reminds me that my grandfather was taught in the old country that a right angle was 100 degrees, not 90.

A French unit, of course.

You are talking wholly different antenna system; likely for cellular carrier's microcells.

Here's one of the few shots that I have found of the PG&E ones:

This one is on a pole with no primaries:

That's pretty funny, considering that I work for an Asian company who does much of their design work here.

There is a *lot* of here and not so much contaminated.

H2O, from the Catskill Mountains. Jan is an idiot Europeon. His only clue about the US is what he sees on the TeeVee.

second. Why change to 50? Reminds me that my grandfather was taught in the old country that a right angle was 100 degrees, not 90.

Seems so. I remember that they used to be a trig function option on calculators-- only time I've ever actually run into the units. A bit nasty because the answer would be pretty close to using degrees, so mistakes would not be as obvious as the 180/pi ratio between degrees and radians.

second. Why change to 50? Reminds me that my grandfather was taught in the old country that a right angle was 100 degrees, not 90.

Yep, it's on the older HPs (not on my 35S).

First time I've seen "high speed", and "Tehachapi Loop" used in the same sentence.

That line climbs something like 3000 feet in 20 miles.

I think that would have been grads, not degrees. Was it in Germany? Austria? Czechoslovakia?

Let's all use radians ;-)

The correct terminology is "transmission towers", Only laymen say "pylons".

Last time I looked, pole-to pole transmission voltages in the UK were not dissimilar to those in the USA. Take a look at the insulators.

From memory, you have 3.3kV, 6.6kV, and 10kV on poles.

UK pole transformers *step down* to 400V phase-to-phase, plus star point neutral, the standard UK low voltage.

More German than French, I think.

Cause, or effect?

grad, grade [1], gradian, or gon (g or gr or grd) a unit of angle measurement equal to 1/400 circle, 0.01 right angle, 0.9°, or 54'. This unit was introduced in France, where it is called the grade, in the early years of the metric system. The grad is the English version, apparently introduced by engineers around 1900. The name gon is used for this unit in German, Swedish, and other northern European languages in which the word grad means degree. Although many calculators will display angle measurements in grads as well as degrees or radians, it is difficult to find actual applications of the grad today. grade [2]

David Lesher wrote in news:jtfblp$8ae$ snipped-for-privacy@reader1.panix.com:

Yes,you're right;those ARE ground planes,under whip antennas. My apologies.

I have one utility near my apt.complex's maintenance shop that uses a directional UHF yagi,and have seen other remote monitoring stations using similar antennas. I have yet to see any of these whips on poles around the central FL area.

I have seen Yagi's in two (utility) cases. The common one is sewer list stations. The rare one is natural gas regulators; most are 150 Mhz groundplanes so I can only guess this corner was a weak signal area.

I despise NYC and Dallas. SF is worth visiting but I certainly wouldn't live anywhere near there. LA is just too much of a PITA. OTOH, I really like Minneapolis (in the summer) and Atlanta (the rest of the year). ;-)

Roger that! I've lived in college towns most of my life. Auburn is pretty boring (and fall weekends are a PITA). ;-)

I didn't think any more of Pasadena, or BH, for that matter. Too hard to get around and nothing there once you do. Dallas is a pile of concrete in the middle of the desert. Ugly!

Yeah, that's it idiot! Embrace the retarded bastards's bullshit and even quote the dumb shit.

I think idiots like you are worse than abusive retarded bastards like him. Because YOU claim to be civil. That is not the case.