Norm: When I was about that age, Shredded Wheat was separated by actual "title deeds" to one square foot of land in the Yukon Territory. I know they were real because each deed was personally signed by SGT. Preston of the Yukon. Did you get yours? So far, I haven't gotten around to inspecting my lot, but I know it's up there.
Phil McGovern s/v Sunshine On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Norm of Bandersnatch < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We could invent a gadget that could do the same thing. > > We could leave our VHF on a channel not much used, with our gadget hooked > up to the external speaker output, then whistle as we clicked the > push-to-talk on our pocket VHF to trigger our homing anchor light. > > On the other hand, we could use an old Indian trick that I learned about on > cardboard separating layers of Shredded Wheat when I was 5 years old. > Called "Ingin'nuity", the cards featured various techniques supposedly used > by Native Americans. The one that stood well for me for all my life was > the technique of looking behind me occasionally when traveling a trail for > the first time, especially at intersections, to "photograph" in my mind > what the return trip will look like. > > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Julington Creek > 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > > > > Technically speaking: a squelch burst would trigger a VOX circuit and > > increment a counter chip. When the last count is triggered, the counter > > output drives a transistor to fire the relay. This has been standard > > technology for ham radio repeaters for at least 20 yeas that I know of > and I > > am sure I did not hear about it till after it was already in use for a > > decade or so prior to that. It should not be much of a challenge for any > > ham who makes their own rigs or is involved in seting up a 2 meter > > repeater site. > > Range would be comparable to any other VHF radio. In fact you may have > to > > desensitize it a bit. We used 400mW 2 meter radios for traffic light > > control. This is low power and as such not restricted by requiring an > FCC > > licence for each station. Range was 3/4 mile according to my own field > > tests. And without using any hi gain antenna. Our antenna were bare > wire > > dipoles hand cut on the bench from SS welding rod. > > > > Arild > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >
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