[ARC5] "I Hates Meeces Tuh Pieces!..."

[Tim]

Pretty sure it was Sylvester the Cat.  "I hates them meeses ta pieces"....

Tim
N6CC

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Chris Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> What cartoon character said that anyway?  Tom from Tom and Jerry?
>
> We have a pots lamp in the garden with an outlet box about 18 inches above
> grade. Usually keep the circuit off during the winter.  Last spring when I
> tried to turn it in the GFCI in the circuit tripped.  Ant nest in the
> outlet box.  Gross!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 21:57, Dennis Monticelli <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> OK.  My turn.
>
> Back when I was a 15 yr old novice my antenna was a low 40M dipole.  A
> large blue jay liked to crap on my center insulator making a mess of it.
> One day I noticed the jay sitting astride the insulator, one foot on each
> leg of the dipole.  I ran inside turned on my Viking II, loaded it to full
> suds on a dummy load, switched it over to the dipole, and then pounded down
> on my navy key.  I heard a single loud blood-curdling squawk and then
> silence.  Did the jay fly away?  I couldn't see from my window.  I ran back
> outside and found him hanging under the insulator, both feet still gripping
> the wires, with feathers orthogonal to his body. Such a satisfying sight :-)
>
> Dennis AE6C
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <
> kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24 Mar 2016 at 18:49, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>>
>> > The weirdest mouse electrocution I ever saw was in an antique VT
>> electronic
>> > organ.This particular design ran all of the Ac and DC voltage
>> requirements on
>> > bare bussbars horizontally across the back. The mouse was stuck
>> perfectly
>> > vertical to the rails like a third rail electric train electrocution.
>> he popped
>> > off pretty easy, though...;)
>>
>> In my case, it was a small squirrel or chip-munk. It had gotten into the
>> main
>> cage of our mountain-top 25KW TV transmitter, had crawled directly under
>> the single insulated lead from the center-tap of the HV transformer which
>> was about 2" from the bottom of the cage, and had received a good jolt
>> through its skull, killing it instantly.
>>
>> We experienced several intermittant shut-downs of the transmitter at odd
>> times over the next several weeks, and couldn't figure out what was
>> happening.
>>
>> We finally discovered the decomposing corpse which was swelling up as it
>> decomposed, shorting out the lead, blowing the main breaker, the shot of
>> HV
>> would open up the corpse so that it leaked all the gas, then it would do
>> it
>> again in a few days.
>>
>> Since the cage had a 25 HP blower in it blowing all the heat, and the
>> stink,
>> out side, we never suspected it until we just happened to find it after
>> finally
>> doing a very diligent search inside the HV cage.
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
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