On Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:13:35 AM Stuart Stevenson did opine: > > Here in the hills & hollers of WV, finding someone expert enough can > > be frustrating, so I have been forced to become my own expert, but > > he's a dummy at times too. ;-) > > > > same here on the plains of Heaven (Kansas) > > Kansas is not the end of the world (but you can see it from here) :)
When I was the CE at KIVA-TV in Farmington NM in the late 70's, we used to claim we were only 90 miles of desert from Cuba, which was a wide spot with a gas station/general store and P.O. combined on the road you took if you were going to Sandy Fay. It confused the frogs a bit when we made that claim. ;-) The gravel road, loosely maintained by traffic, that took you another 35 miles into Chaco Canyon National Park, separated the park from anything that resembled civilization. I installed some TV antenna's on a short piece of Rohn 25 tower, up on the desert floor, dropping a piece of 7/8 rigid coax down a crack in the canyon wall (about 700 feet to the floor). With the antenna's pointed loosely toward Santa Fe & Alb., and a booster on the antenna, I got a signal to noise ratio of about 1/1 and maybe 100 microvolts delivered to a distribution amp in one of the parks service cabins located out of sight from the general publics travels through there in a side leg of the canyon. Truly a terrible pix, poor synch, but they could actually watch and listen to the evening news. Otherwise news got into the park on a twice weekly mail run. They were happier than the proverbial pig & paid me well. All this leads up to my really seeing that place, because as I was putting up the antenna's, it came lunch time and I sat down with my lunch pail in the warming summer sun, and when I awoke a few minutes later, I looked over the edge into the canyon and there must have been 2,000 people down there, dressed in 1,000 year old garb, milling around. It was very fertile and green, with fields of maize stretching as far as I could see & the stone ruins were looking freshly built and well maintained. Then I blinked and turned my head as a whistle dog barked at me from 50 yards behind me, and when I looked back, it was all gone, and looked exactly like it does today again. But for a few moments, I was seeing it as it existed a thousand years ago. When I mentioned it to the park ranger, he sort of chuckled and said that happens often here, there must be a bit of magic around this place. He called them the ghosts of a past & said some of the paths that look like the tourists have worn them smooth by the thousands, might actually get 20 people a year over them, but the ghosts kept them from reverting to the desert scrub with their traffic. Some of those places have magic in them yet. Mesa Verde is another such place. If you have nothing better to do, and a week to do it in, those two places are worth a week of your life. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
