[AMRadio] Suggestions for restoring a DX-100

[Donald Chester]

>From: wwd at netheaven.com

>Enough of this pcb hysteria gets transferred
>to the miniscule amounts that hams find in old hv caps...will be rather 
>minimal compared to past
>usage, which hereabouts involved spraying on dirt roads near homes to keep
>dust dowm, etc. Tons and tons of pcb's were disposed of this way for
>decades.

Automotive brake fluid used to contain PCB.  Think of the tons of it that 
entered the environment all those decades (ever notice how you have to top 
off your master cylinder from time to time, let alone ruptured and leaky 
brake cylinders and lines, etc... guess where all that PCB went).  PCB 
pollution due to electrical transformers and capacitors was a drop in the 
ocean compared to what resulted from automotive use.  For some reason the 
hysterics have ignored the automotive source and concentrated on electrical 
stuff.

>Speaking of 'hysterical issues' what is your annual dead-bird count for
>your tower? Mine still = zero, after a decade.

Birds love to flock to the top of my 127 footer and perch on the 119' high 
dipole.  I think I found one dead bird on the ground once in the 20 years my 
tower has been up.  Probably died of natural causes.  I think birds are too 
smart to fly into objects like towers (or skyscrapers).  Maybe all jetcraft 
should be permanently grounded.  I inderstand jet engines routinely suck in 
birds over the course of a flight.  Birds sometimes do themselves in by 
flying into glass windows of buildings.  Maybe windows should be outlawed.

Don K4KYV

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