Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Kilowatts Date: 15 Jan 2025 14:22:29 GMT Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <181a03da127b916c$17153$2732928$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <181a940f7adb322d$2009$2484$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <181aa2e783f6507c$101945$292657$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <4-udnW4MKdqYXBr6nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1OxSG2Do/8V9lRcI5OpyNwUcg+NOZm8ELHfZjo9cb/n/A1MLTD Cancel-Lock: sha1:bDtDD5lYoCSf9kmoRK0brMzafZ0= sha256:LiArmynCouW+eBiqzwuRf+OsCKBhooa3K6zrD/yBaaE= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.161 (Hmm2; c45f6052; Linux-6.12.9) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:684073 On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:06:07 -0700, % wrote in <4-udnW4MKdqYXBr6nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com>: > vallor wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:21:25 -0700, % wrote in >> : >> >>> Farley Flud wrote: >>>> On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole >>>>> >>>>> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the radio a really >>>>> good ground. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a dunce! >>>> >>>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole. >>>> >>>> And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes" >>>> just to save your sorry ass. >>>> >>>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole. >>>> >>>> Now shut the fuck up. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> i was getting there >> >> So you're both wrong. Dipoles are tapped in the middle. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_wire_antenna >> >> Sigmonster for the Feeb: >> > they're tapped where ever they can be , that's the whole idea for > getting around , > corners and bends Now you're making sophomoric semantics arguments. Is this a dipole? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_antenna -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti OS: Linux 6.12.9 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G "Get behind early so you have plenty of time to catch up."