[Elecraft] Maxwell's Equations.

[Lu Romero]

Wayne's post reminds me of a story from my past.

Early in my broadcasting career, I wanted to rid our station
of the little jaggies that plauged the edges of Chroma Keys,
the process that is used to put the weather man in front of
the map using a blue or green screen as the background that
"disapears" in the process.  The jaggies were prevalent in
the "good old analog days" of TV and looked just awful to my
young, inexperienced eyes.

As I searched for an answer over countless weeks, the wise
old station senior engineer watched with amusement at my
experiments in futility with lighting, colored gels on the
backlight, camera enhancer adjustments, background paint
color tweaks and production switcher keyer tweaks but
offered no clue to my inquisitiveness, just smiles and head
nods.  

Finally, I summoned the courage to personally approach him
and ask if knew the reason why this was the way it was.  He
nodded yes; his charge for the answer was lunch at the local
eatery down the street, a local bar-b-cue place which, had a
name, but everyone at our station called it "The Pig Bar"
due to the sign hanging on a pole above the door... A red
outline of a pig with the word "BAR" in white block letters
within.

After downing several pulled pork sandwiches, some Halupki
and an Iron City Beer, the wise old engineer grinned and
said "I admire your perseverance, kid, but everybody knows
that that condition is caused by the algebraic sum of the
diverging vector".

>From that moment on, anything that mere mortals like me
could not understand was always refered to as being caused
by the algebraic sum of the diverging vector.

-lu-w4lt-
K3 # 3192


> Interesting discussion. Gives me an idea.
>
> We'll soon be announcing a very cool new test instrument
(it's the same size as
our T1 antenna tuner but not related to it in any way).
We'll give one of these to
whoever can suggest, by next Thursday, the most plausible
alternative to
11-dimensional supersymmetry as the working basis for a
unified field theory. You may
assume a negative cosmological constant and cannot impose
R-parity. If the Higgs
boson is discovered before the new product announcement,
we'll throw in a spare 9-V
battery.
>
> 73.14159...,
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
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