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

Fri Mar 25 17:50:37 EDT 2016

     What was that song about a bird on the wire? That used to be the 
explanation of noisy telegraph lines.

On 3/25/2016 10:22 AM, Chris Bowne wrote:
> I think you are referring to the blue jay on the other posters dipole. 
>  I had to replace the ant farm outlet box.  What a mess. Didn't want 
> to deal with cleaning it out.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 25, 2016, at 13:01, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com 
> <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>
>>     How did you get him off?
>>
>> On 3/25/2016 9:49 AM, Chris Bowne 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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