> . . powering your TX and RX. (Paul Emerson) Neat, but I think we should spend more effort on finding ways to reduce energy usage rather than ways of getting more energy to use in the first place. I like sailplanes because they fly using ambient energy -- the whole goal of their design is to find ways to make them as efficient as possible. Current radio systems use very small amounts of power but its conceivable that if there was the need or the incentive then their power use could be reduced significantly.
[That's one of the biggest complaints I have about powerline networking..........DSL and cable modems are quite greedy for what they do, a powerline modem is the same thing scaled up using even more power. The power companies don't care since they've got a lot of it to sell but all that power use has got to be sourced and all that energy is going to go somewhere -- most of it will be heat but a significant amount will be available at radio frequencies.] Martin Usher (The cooking site's worth a look.......understandable recepies, almost revolutionary.....) RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
