Testing a car aerial

Mark Carver wrote:

Ah, well, time used to go so much slower 40 years ago, so I assume
that light did indeed travel faster back then ?

As we are having some fun with pedantry, I'm afraid I must correct your
use of an adjective when you should have used an adverb: time used to
go more slowly, not slower.

Hah!

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SteveT

Steve Thackery wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:

Ah, well, time used to go so much slower 40 years ago, so I assume
that light did indeed travel faster back then ?

As we are having some fun with pedantry, I'm afraid I must correct
your use of an adjective when you should have used an adverb: time
used to go more slowly, not slower.

Hah!

Unlfortunately for you, 'slower' is an adverb too:

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=slower

I shall refrain from repeating your vulgar triumphalism.

Johny B Good wrote:

Wonderful stuff, Bill.

Thank you.

bill

"Johny B Good" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:33:38 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Johny B Good wrote:

Actually, it was 208.47m, so to one decimal palce 208.5 metres

No, to _one_ decimal place it's 208.4m. ITYMTS, "to _two_ decimal
places" _then_ it becomes 208.5

Ner ner! Even us ignorant people can be right by accident sometimes!

Pre Nov 23rd 1978 it was on 1439 kHz, or 208.33 (reoccuring) metres

It matters not when the wavelength is being quoted to the nearest
metre for ease of announcement and memorability for public consumption
at a time when most domestic radio dials were calibrated by
wavelength.

As soon as father came through t'door we knew summat were up. Although
has face were masked wit' grime ot' pit his despondent manner chilled
t'air int' 'ole 'ouse. Finally, half way through tea, little Cressida
piped up, "Dad, what's up with tha'? Tha's like a wet weekend in
Cleethorpes!"

Mam froze, not knowing how dad would react, but from dad there were nowt
but a long silence. Then finally he spoke. "They've changed it! They've
bloody changed it!"

"Don't swear in front ot' children Nigel!" cried mam, outraged like.
Then she whispered, "They've changed what love?"

"They've changed t'bloody wavelength!" shouted father, his face
contorted by t'stress and t'anguish.

Mam went to him and put her arm around him. "Wavelength of what love?"
she asked quietly. "Oh, and don't swear in front ot' children."

"Wavelength of bloody Luxembourg!" We all reared back in our seats,
utterly shocked and gobsmacked, as father continued, "It's gone from
208.33 metres to 208.47 metres!"

"Well I'll go t'foot of our stairs!" exclaimed mother.

"What shall we do father?" asked Araminta, the oldest girl in our family.

Father spoke, not loudly but with the hoarse tones of a man driven to
the end of his tether. "We shall have to bloody re-tune t'bloody
wireless!"

Clinging onto t'harmonium for support, mother gasped, "Oh no!" then
added, "and will will you stop ****ing swearing in front ot' ****ing
children you crude *******?"

Later the family was assembled in the front parlour. Father turned on
the wireless, his touch on the knob delicate, like a man defusing a
bomb. We waited for an eternity as the wireless warmed up.

(cont p92)



I don't think the doppler shifts due to the vagiaries of the
Heaviside layer on MW were to the extremes mentioned by Bill. The
'Skywave' effect was more to do with varying phase delays between the
multipath reflections of the Heaviside layer.

"'Varying phase delays between the multipath reflections of the
Heaviside layer?' What the bloody 'ell's 'varying phase delays between
the multipath reflections of the Heaviside layer?'
"It's something they use in coal mining father."
"Not that again!"
"Ee's 'ad hard day dear. His new play opens at t'national theatre
tomorrow..."


Wonderful stuff, Bill. Inspired writing, as in inspired by Michael
Palin's "Ripping Yarns" TV series that was shown a few weeks back on
BBC4.

Michael Palin has been stealing Bill's material?
--
JohnT

Norman Wells wrote:

I shall refrain from repeating your vulgar triumphalism.

Hummph!

--
SteveT

JohnT wrote:


Wonderful stuff, Bill. Inspired writing, as in inspired by Michael
Palin's "Ripping Yarns" TV series that was shown a few weeks back on
BBC4.

Michael Palin has been stealing Bill's material?

Firstly you've misunderstood and got it arse about face, secondly I
didn't watch the Palin programmes as it happened. I was inspired, if
that's the word, by my real life here in the North.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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JohnT wrote:


Wonderful stuff, Bill. Inspired writing, as in inspired
by Michael
Palin's "Ripping Yarns" TV series that was shown a few
weeks back on
BBC4.

Michael Palin has been stealing Bill's material?

Firstly you've misunderstood and got it arse about face,
secondly I didn't watch the Palin programmes as it
happened. I was inspired, if that's the word, by my real
life here in the North.




+1 from a Cestrafeldian.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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JohnT wrote:


Wonderful stuff, Bill. Inspired writing, as in inspired by Michael
Palin's "Ripping Yarns" TV series that was shown a few weeks back on
BBC4.

Michael Palin has been stealing Bill's material?

Firstly you've misunderstood and got it arse about face, secondly I didn't
watch the Palin programmes as it happened. I was inspired, if that's the
word, by my real life here in the North.

The question was mine, not the valediction! And, with all due respect, I
regard Bill's part of the world as being in the South.
--
JohnT

"Woody" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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JohnT wrote:


Wonderful stuff, Bill. Inspired writing, as in inspired by Michael
Palin's "Ripping Yarns" TV series that was shown a few weeks back on
BBC4.

Michael Palin has been stealing Bill's material?

Firstly you've misunderstood and got it arse about face, secondly I
didn't watch the Palin programmes as it happened. I was inspired, if
that's the word, by my real life here in the North.




+1 from a Cestrafeldian.



Chesterfield is in the Deep South. Indistinguishable from London.

--
JohnT

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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I was inspired, if that's the word, by my real life here in the North.

According to the booklet which accompanies the complete Ripping Yarns
series, the Eric Olthwaite episode was filmed at Beamish and Tow Law in
County Durham as apparently nowhere in Yorkshire looked miserable enough!
The chase ending at the Waterfall is at High Force.

Rod (loves trivia)...