The Pig is dead!

And you are as happy with yourself as ever.

Rodents - as a group - have incisors that keep on growing all the time, and have to be ground back by chewing on stuff to prevent them getting inconveniently long.

Rodents aren't famously communicative, but people who study them do report their results, albeit not in places that serve up enough extra flattery to interest John Larkin.

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oc on RF receivers - well up into the 1900 MHz PCS band (though usually muc h worse in 600/700/800, of course). That's the majority of what I find, bu t of course I'm not usually working below 600 MHz, either. A bad arrestor clearly shows on a thermal camera. (But in substations, FPL uses a ultraso nic "camera". I don't know why? Something to do with corona, I suspect. (And we did have a case at a generator station once that the spectrum analy zer could easily see, but the ultrasonic gear didn't detect it.)

at turned out to be a small length of wire (maybe 6") that somehow got wrap ped around one of the phases and was just sitting there (this was medium vo ltage distribution). It was a LOT NOISIER than you might think! Of course , it was only a couple hundred feet from the cell site, and at about the sa me height, so that explains some of it. Maybe -60 dBm broadband? (The cel l has high-gain antennas.)

old CATV leak -- but it was mid-span on the overhead wires! Binoculars con firmed that some squirrels had eaten clean through to the inner conductor.

Our .750 and .500 hardline was unjacketed. Jacketed cable was generally use d in high salt areas, like near the coastlines. Just an aluminum tube fille d with plastic foam, and an aluminum center conductor. Tell me what that ta stes like. If they don't chew enough hard objects, their teeth continue to grow until they can't eat.

No, I pity you for your arrogance and your ignorance.

Indeed. If you felt better about yourself you wouldn't need to be obsessed with assigning fault to so many others.

You need to look at yourself when saying that.

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ssed with assigning fault to so many others.

Mike, if you only read your posts as if they were someone else's you might realize the mental state you have. I'm not even sure how to describe it. It's all about negativity and intense criticism of anyone who doesn't agree 100% with what you believe. I don't mean you disagree with people. I mea n you can't disagree with people without calling them names, i.e. ad homine m attacks and just being mean.

I guess I should just ignore what you post and let you rant away in your wo rld. It's not like anything I say to you will ever have any positive impac t.

And not when a Tesla drives by. Teslas do not have AM band on their radios. You can guess why....

There's nothing on AM radio but right-wing talk shows and mariachi music?

This one seems to work fine:

"Open Neutral" are words that DO get a line crew dispatched, quickly.

I bet you can't guess why...

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No guess about it. It had a poor ground link connection. The rains completed it a bit better.

Something happened to my post. I was actually replying to David Lesher, but I must have trimmed his remark.

Guess I shouldn't be posting drunk. Or maybe I shouldn't post sober. Not sure which applies in this case. Is my typing slurred???

Our local untility keeps a master line technician with decades of experienc e and a ham license on staff for these things. Most of the folks who do his job are post retirement or no longer able to climb, but have good troubles hooting skills.

His van has three things, a Korean War era tube shortwave receiver a beef y TDR for finding underground line breakes in MV cables, and a simple spect rum analyser with a premap optimized for Low Band VHF. Also a recever set for a VHF carrier in the local cable TV systems, so the problem can be sol ved by the correct entity.

He has a variety of antennas and pickup and coupling coils, but perfers the SW set and a long wire antenna tossed out the back of the van, claming th at solves 95% of the problems.

Poor design of the motor controls and little or no shielding? A decent AM radio design was more complex than all of the electronics in a Tesla?

nce and a ham license on staff for these things. Most of the folks who do h is job are post retirement or no longer able to climb, but have good troubl eshooting skills.

efy TDR for finding underground line breaks in MV cables, and a simple spec trum analyser with a preamp optimized for Low Band VHF. Also a receiver s et for a VHF carrier in the local cable TV systems, so the problem can be s olved by the correct entity.

he SW set and a long wire antenna tossed out the back of the van, claiming that solves 95% of the problems.

Some of the LED lamps being retrofitted into old traffic lights radiate all kinds of crap. Some, in rural areas can be heard on a radio, further than you can see them.

We used a radio made by Sniffer back in the '80s in our CATV service vans t o monitor out distribution system at all times. The idiot manager tried to save a few dollars and bought a used monitoring system. It was made for a 1

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AM radio design was more complex than all of the electronics in a Tesla?

Demographics. Tesla really isn't targeting the market that includes many A M listeners. I can't remember the last time I listened to AM radio in any venue.

Cars have to meet part 15 emission standards like any other device. Unlike ICE, electric batteries and motors don't have wear parts in the electrical path that degrade and generate emissions.

I guess the FM radio LO might emit a bit.

I've never understood why people would hate an entire car company when they 've never owned a product. Is it the idea of doing something that other co mpanies said wasn't practical? Is it the idea of the cars themselves? Tes la hate just seems so totally irrational to me. That's why I understand La rkin hating them.

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nt AM radio design was more complex than all of the electronics in a Tesla?

AM listeners. I can't remember the last time I listened to AM radio in an y venue.

ke ICE, electric batteries and motors don't have wear parts in the electric al path that degrade and generate emissions.

ey've never owned a product. Is it the idea of doing something that other companies said wasn't practical? Is it the idea of the cars themselves? T esla hate just seems so totally irrational to me. That's why I understand Larkin hating them.

I've never had 100% third degree burns, either. Not that I want either. I d o tire of all the fanboi BS about them, and your continuous spam about them . That does more to make me not want something than anything else. Most adv ertising bores me to tears, especially the 'All of our customers are idiots ' style that is so popular today.

Ricky C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Believe it or not, civil defense still exists.

We have a hard time purging things like despotic, dictatorial crackpots, but otherwise look out for folks pretty well.

If ALL of CD were still in place, THEY would have handled this pandemic response, and would NOT have called the threat minimal.

And then went golfing.

But it has nothing to do with the radio they have installed.

Grasping at straws? That is a laugh. Every "radio" in cars these days are already emissions approved, third party supply chain acquisistions.

You are mumbling. High wattage brushless motors have age issues too, and they and their drive circuits experience age related "additional emissions" in some of those circumstances.

Yo are way too far in to it. Car radios are already approved third party devices. Car makers do NOT have to get their car re-evaluated for rule part 15 compliance every time they choose a new radio. It's called COTS.

And these days, there is very little part 15 compliance police out there looking at everything since mothing has been greatly emissive since they took away the computer case shileding specs years ago. If a zinged out motherboard can keep it down, the FCC pretty much presumes everything else can and does as well. So they wait. You file a complaint on a device, and THEN they go give it a look. The MAKER has to declare compliance, and *should* actually be providing it. But not necc so and not always the case, and unless and until an rf noise emissions complaint would get filed on a device, they ain't looking any more.

Now you are back on track. First ask them how they voted. That should give you a quick, which side of the bell curve they fall on feel.

I want Musk to help me buil my city.

Remember how hated Bill Gates was? Idiots despise successful business persons. That is one way you can tell without asking them how they voted. They claim to love America, but hate Americans that have made it.

Look at all the derision cast upon Bloomberg.

That guy made part of this nation for decades, just like Perot did.

Larkin hates NASA. That is the third method. They claim to be so intelligent, yet deride known hard science.

The guy isn't really even all that eccentric. I like him because hes MUST have a lot of intelligence. I mean come on, people. The guy is brilliant.

And a quasar compared to the little brown dwarf that Trump's "Brilliance level" hovers at. (or is it orange).

I just read this, and look what I already wrote above.

He likely has all three attributes.