asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the lulzy part, the 'standard items' pretty much guaranteed not to work, they're built to be used in resonant (single-freq, or at least quite narrow band) system
asciilifeform: quite interesting, imho, problem , in that virtually errything written since 1910s is ~entirely inapplicable ( as it concerns tuned/narrowband systems )
asciilifeform: could almost say it is 'cipher key', of sorts
asciilifeform: 1 interesting aspect is that the 'correctness' of the antenna dun matter nearly so much as it does in conventional 'periodic' radio -- for so long as the 2 ends of the rx-tx have similar ones
asciilifeform: the useful lit, turns out, is 1910s stuff, from age of 'spark gap'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tricky bit is shape, rather than material ( and for quarter-wave , you need a 2-3 metre on the wide end thing )
asciilifeform: rounding off the uwb thread, for the l0gz : the antennae are the only nontrivial part. given as you do not actually need the sub-nanosecond pulses that are the subj of the 9000 dissertations littering the net, if you dun intend to kowtow to the 'fcc uwb regulatory' crapola.
asciilifeform: of course stratified. just as errybody has 'medic', 'nurse', 'surgeon', 'pharmacist', for various aspects of medical trade, wai not whores
asciilifeform: tho there's a lulzy false cognate in modern ru, ботан ( orig short 'botanist' ) but in effect learned fool, 'dweeb'
asciilifeform: iirc subj is even touched in the ceremonial 'exam' usg makes'em take to buy 'license' (to spew rubbish into designated leprosoriae bands )
asciilifeform: afaik the only inca empire that built one for hf was su, and it fell victim to chernobyl incident ( ruin is still there )
asciilifeform: usg phased array radar ? they're uwb, yes, but for >10GHz
asciilifeform: lulzily enuff, found $subj during dig for whether anybody ever built a uwb antenna for hf ( 0-30MHz ). ( spoiler : nobody, publicly, as It Would Be Wrong (tm)(r) per hitler decree )
asciilifeform: how did it go, 'the master won't give you the tools with which to demolish his house', etc
asciilifeform: ( speaking here of the drowning-water suppliers , i.e. the adelbergers, rather than the blind kittens )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: time passes, the coat of chrome , stolen from the respectables of the past, on the cuckitude, wears thinner , erry time i read something by these people, amazed at sheer wtf
asciilifeform: ( does this remind you of anything... )
asciilifeform: 'Eric Adelberger, one if the leaders of the group, “found Weber’s experiment to be completely unconvincing and realized that with a modest effort we could test his claim” (private communication).'
asciilifeform: (for expert entomologists only!) https://archive.fo/Nnvbl << choice turd, by associate of the infamous adelberger, re weber ( who was anathemized and 'unhappened' ) , even includes hair-raising passage re how 'generous and accepting the physics community was , to keep publishing him'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of the things that never ceases to fascinate me re physics crackpots, is how rarely they grasp the sheer 'unreasonable effectiveness' of making ~political~ , rather than simply technical, cuts . ( observe, i dun need to read , much less attempt to individually refute, errything the strings people shit out -- for the same reason i dun need to read gavin's code . )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: physics crackpots often have heroic persistence. and long life. evidently good for health...
asciilifeform: ( bonus : found this wtf via... google ad )
asciilifeform: phf: new one oughta produce no warnings
asciilifeform: wouldn't surprise me if it is being passed around, contextless, in heathendom, as 'make a gentoo sans systemd' pill.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: 'He’s heard of the Republic, hasn’t gotten around to registering a key yet. Even brought his gentoo laptop to my site this year to pick my brain. I complimented him on having GCC < 5. Thing even had Stanislav’s crapolade mask file! ' << ha.
asciilifeform: 'European PULSERS project was terminated without any marketable result in 2009'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in re earlier lulzthread , 'Freescale and Motorola decided to pull out of the UWB forum in 2006 ... If one searches for XS110 chipset today then the answer at Freescale website (https://www.nxp.com) is that “Page Not Found”'
asciilifeform: phf: plox to replace the sad bin sig on btcbase with this one .
asciilifeform: the tantalum filter cap on FUCKGOATS -- similarly 'margined'.
asciilifeform: ( horiz footprint is typically same )
asciilifeform: pro tip -- when recapping, use, as i did, 2x the rated voltage of old cap, last longer.
asciilifeform: ( if label is to be believed, genuine taiyo yuden a+++ )
asciilifeform: ^ i still have a crate of those caps. if yer an l1 , you can have some for cost of postage.
asciilifeform: they're built nominally to disgorge their guts by tearing on the cross striation on the top of the cap, but chinese cap makers dun make these very deep
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-22#1837260 << also relatedly, i've had busted caps where the damage was only visible through magnifying glass , tiny little hole , magic smoke released. ( luckily not the case for mircea_popescu's box , evidently, but does happen )☝︎
asciilifeform: jurov's thing gets me a 'Signature verification on clearsigned text failed, discarding. Review the message in your sent mail folder for wordwrap or similar mutilations of clearsigned text' despite the fact that i used the www front end ( therealbitcoin.org/mailman/post/btc-dev ) and attached all 3 as attachment
asciilifeform: mod6: it seems to reject my clearsigned readme ( which verifies locally, i've nfi )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting. tho 1 nitpick -- voltmeter quite useless for distinguishing dead bios battery, erry 3v lithium cell i've ever thrown out, measured to ~3v ( just drops to 0 if you put a load on it )
asciilifeform: mod6: hm, interestingly, i uploaded with jurov's widget, apparently silent fail
asciilifeform: to this day i have not found how to send email ( from either squirrel or heathen emailtron ) that doesn't mutilate line endings.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem turned out to be in email sending end . he 'fixed' by emplacing a www file uploader thing, which i've used ever since.
