Posts for: WB9DDF
Feb 8, 2017 11:41:54 #
Bigger solar panels. Your average input to the battery has to be equal to or greater than the average load that the camera and other equipment presents. Also a switching regulator is more efficient that simple analog regulators - could make all the difference.
Feb 7, 2017 19:49:11 #
I one saw a helicopter spraying crops next to a high line. The pilot was making hammerhead turns a couple hundred feet above the ninety foot high power lines. I thought he was crazy. The guy in your video reminds me of something a pilot friend told me.
"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots."
"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots."
Feb 7, 2017 19:36:05 #
This won't work. Squishy kids bodies produce inelastic collisions. The steel ball thingie works because steel is very elastic and produces energy conserving collisions.
Maybe that is the idea of this playground "experiment" - showing what won't work.
Maybe that is the idea of this playground "experiment" - showing what won't work.
Feb 6, 2017 14:54:10 #
jmizera wrote:
The operating system need only support the software that reads and writes the file, not the file itself.
I thought that was what I said.
Feb 5, 2017 11:29:15 #
...but how long will the operating system on your computer continue to support the plugins to read the raw format. After a number of years go by, the only computers you can buy will not support an OS old enough to use the plugins to read the old RAW formats. 
Jan 29, 2017 13:12:57 #
Here us my best for this last week.
This was taken at a local farm pond. It was a miserable cold overcast day. The pond was full of Canada geese until a flock of swans scared them away. The next day the swans were gone and the geese were back but I was lucky to catch them while they were there.
This was taken at a local farm pond. It was a miserable cold overcast day. The pond was full of Canada geese until a flock of swans scared them away. The next day the swans were gone and the geese were back but I was lucky to catch them while they were there.
Jan 5, 2017 11:01:12 #
chrisscholbe wrote:
You realize that if the rest of the state secedes from Chicago, they loose 95% of whatever tax revenue they currently get for infrastructure etc?
Yes, but we will probably loose more than 95% of the expenses too. and at least 3/4 of the crooked politicians and 3/4 of the lame ideas in Springfield
Over all, it would be worth it!
Jan 5, 2017 10:45:44 #
richosob wrote:
The liberal politicians in Chicago will not do what's necessary ...
Thus, my desire to form the state of "NotChicago". ;-)
Jan 4, 2017 21:35:11 #
TriX wrote:
... I've spent a lot of time there in the past (Fermilab, Argonne National Lab and Univ of Chicago) ...
I was at Argonne for a one week course on reactors in 71 or 72 while I was a student at Western Illinois University. (BS Physics 72)
Jan 4, 2017 21:05:42 #
TriX wrote:
Damn shame because Chicago is a great city.
Personally I wish the rest of the state of Illinois would secede from Chicago. People in both of the resulting states would be a lot happier.
Dec 31, 2016 21:11:39 #
My wife says she will take one of each - the dogs that is. Your work is magnificent. Great job of getting your subjects to pose for you. My dogs only pose when they are asleep. ;-)
Dec 15, 2016 11:15:55 #
Im sure going to the frigid North West seemed like a good idea when you scheduled the trip. 
Dec 11, 2016 18:18:02 #
Tillo wrote:
Hi all, I transferred images from my computer to thumb drive but were not readable on other computers Am I doing something wrong?
Two things come to mind.
1) Are they RAW files? The other computers may not know how to read these files.
2) If your computer is a Mac (like mine) you have to format the thumb drive for a PC. The Mac can read PC format and its own native format. PCs are more limited.
Dec 11, 2016 16:08:39 #
346pak wrote:
And later as a US Senator, he flew his Cessna 310 back and forth from Ohio to Washington DC routinely. A big change from that tiny little sensible car.
He did a lot of his earlier flying in single seat fighters - Prop and Jet. That little car was probably spacious by comparison. ;-)
Dec 4, 2016 11:07:57 #
