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Bill Overton October 8, 2018 at 8:54 PM WHY DOGS LIVE LESS THAN HUMAN Here's the surprising answer of a 6 year old child. Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfho und named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home. As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience. The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker‘s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peace...

A forty seven year old trick. Some of the readers here may remember the post I made on the Pioneer tuner I converted from Japanese to local standard. Before I made the mod. I had to repair the tuner. Right out of storage, when turned on, the tuner audio out would produce what I would described as a loud crackling sound intermittently. To many radio techs, the word "intermittent" is a dreaded word. An accompanying symptom included diminished sensitivity. I had just repaired the oscilloscope the day before. I had to replace a resistor in the focus section of the CRT circuit as the normal dot trace was as big as a grain of corn. The 'scope is the best instrument to track down the source of the noise. Poking the 'scope probe here and there lead me to a AM section IF amp stage which had an odd reading of voltage. So the immediate thought was that the transformer was shorted. I took it off the PCB and examined using a good magnifier. There was no apparent short between t...

(Long) Many years ago, I went to Paranaque to visit a guy who advertised used Japanese HiFi equipment and a smallish Pioneer AM FM tuner caught my fancy. Since it is a digital tuner and the FM band can only receive a couple of local stations (because the Japanese FM broadcast band is from 78 to 90MHz, while ours is from 88 to 108 MHz) and haggled with the shop keeper to get a good price. Unfortunately back then, no information can be obtained even from the internet on this particular tuner model. Two weeks ago, I got a small 40W p.a. and thought I'd dig up the old Pioneer tuner and listen to AM. By the way, it turns out it is one of the rare models that could receive AM stereo (C-Quam standard -used in the states and Japan. Unfortunately, AM Stereo boradcasting has been on the decline and Japan stopped AM stereo broadcast a few years ago. DWWW at 774kHz still lights up the stereo indicator but the audio received is monoraul. I don't know why but maybe the engineers at...

GP antenna support Here is a preliminary design of a ground plane antenna support designed for three legged towers. A swivel arrangement is used to accommodate any spacing between tower legs. each brace could be at least two and a half feet long (the longer the better). This is the clearance between the antenna and the tower, Note that as the antenna flexes in strong wind, the antenna may hit the tower if the brace length is insufficient. The setup may be further improved by using clamps to attach it to the tower leg instead of lashing it with GI wire. This will depend on budget constraints. Please mind the specified mast diameter.