Howdy y'all. Happy day. Do hope your holiday season is nicely warming up and causing a smile or two.
Mike wrote: >The only thing > that was done was I put up the Christmas lights on our balcony. After the > process of elimination I found the extension cord feeding the lights was the > issue! When the extension cord is removed from the balcony the issue is > solved. As a matter of fact all that has to be done is unpluging it from the > outlet on the balcony. > 73 > Mike > VE3WDM I have watched over the years, with amusement, with exasperation and about everything in between as people blame the little black K3 box in front of them for what was ailing them, even though a little minor statistical work in the Elecraft archives should give them a real distrust of that gut lurch. There is a well-founded reason for that instinctive gut lurch, methinks. Humans have been around way way longer than recorded history, and way, way, way, way longer than electronically equipped humans. Instinctive behavior is formed by an eon of humans making the wrong decision in the instant, and paying for it with their lives. That in turn meant that any progeny with the same unuseful inherited instincts were reduced, perished because of lack of support, or never happened in the first place. The ones with the correct gut lurch lived to have grandchildren. If there actually will be any change in normative instinctive behavior because of electronics in our lives, for sure none of us will be around to see it. Neither will our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren. No effect on whether we die, no opportunity for any Darwinian effect. So we are stuck with our instinctive gut lurches. One of those instinctive gut lurches is that the thing right in front of us is the problem. Actually that's a good one, if we look over the entire time span of human population. That mean, hungry-looking sabre-tooth tiger right in front of us REALLY IS the problem. The gut lurch that swings into action before we have time to think, it's a life-saver. Then understanding ourselves, if we do not train ourselves to look around when something goes wrong, INSTINCT will direct us to tear apart the K3, just because it's the thing in front of us, even when the trouble is the 15 meter resonant piece of the Christmas decorations. Oh lordy, I love that story. I just about choked on my coffee when I read it. An electronic parable for the ages. 73, y'all and remember to look outside the box before shipping it to Watsonville. Guy K2AV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
