[Elecraft] Which of these would make the best power supply forthe K3(S)?

[Fred Jensen]

Actually, it was a joke, not an exposition on general relativity's 
explanation of gravity.  It derives from the era of SX-28's and 75A4's. 
  Mass or not, they would hold your desk down.

I now live in NW NV, also earthquake country, and our bookcases and 
furniture are indeed tied to the studs.  Nevertheless, my FP-1030A is 
doing a good job of holding my desk to the floor. :-)  Possibly, we all 
need to lighten up a little.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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On 10/29/2015 5:11 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> Extra mass does not help in a gravity outage. It would just make more
> momentum as the power supply was flying away from the earth
> (centrifugal force from the earth’s rotation). It might be useful in
> a gravity brownout. But maybe not.
>
> In earthquake country, we do have something like a gravity outage.
> The 1994 Northridge Earthquake had peak accelerations of 1.8g
> horizontally and over 1g vertically. That is why we bolt the house to
> the foundation, because the foundation could drop so fast that the
> house would hang in the air and come down in not quite the same spot.
> Oops.