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I was not interested in installing a horizontal loop but I did not have the tower height needed for a vertical full wave loop. Not easy to support 257 feet of wire as a right triangle when your highest support is only 55 feet. So I ended up with a somewhat square configuration. [...]

Judging from the amount of spam, unwanted regular mail, popup trash on the internet, annoying interruptions of so-so programming on tv and radio, worthless infomercials about worthless products on cable, current marketing strategy seems to be ‘Piss them off and they will buy your shit’.

Am I the only one immune to this shockingly unconventional marketing [...]

I recently had a couple of trees trimmed. These are mature sycamores located in my back yard. They top out at around 70 feet. I had the lower branches removed leaving the lowest branch remaining at around 30 feet. A good height for supporting a 75 meter horizontal loop. The [...]

It used to be that when you needed financial services, you selected the best deal from a bank and rewarded them by paying a fee for the service. Now they pretend to pay you for being a customer.

Many decades ago you might get a cheap toaster or other trivial appliance for opening up an [...]

When you are dealing with the lowest bidder in both software as well as hardware (Microsoft and China) you don’t deserve superb results all the time.

For the last few months I have been living with lousy results and blaming the software.

Last week the computer finally refused to boot. Maybe because it was boycotting the [...]