[Elecraft] Items you think you can depend on

[Dave Cole]

I believe that is correct.  A lot of folks thing that electrons move all 
over an antenna...  They move about an inch...

73s and thanks,
Dave
NK7Z
http://www.nk7z.net

On 09/04/2017 07:09 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> OK, I have to ask this question seriously even though this thread has 
> become a spoof.
> 
> Is it really the same electrons that flow from the municipal generator 
> to our rigs and then back to the powerhouse again?  I would have guessed 
> that any individual electron motivated by an applied voltage would 
> simply have moved an atomic diameter or two to fill in a spot in an 
> adjacent depleted valence shell, such that a current flow is actually a 
> shuffling of electrons from one positive ion to the next, but that 
> individual electrons really don’t move very far.  And then they all 
> shuffle back the other way every one sixtieth of a second.  Sort of like 
> cars on Route 128 around Boston, as I recall from my days there.  On the 
> other hand, maybe the uncertainties in the quantum wave function 
> preclude our ever knowing an electron’s position anyway, in which case 
> the question is moot, right?
> 
> For those who care to respond, be kind.  I am a lawyer, not a 
> physicist.  I will return the graciousness if anyone has a question 
> about the mediaeval origins of the writ of coram nobis.  Off-line, of 
> course.
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR
> 
> On 09/04/2017 01:26 PM, Bob Steding wrote:
> 
> *This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of
> 
> electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught, since very few
> 
> customers take the time to examine their electricity closely. In fact, the
> 
> last year any new electricity was generated was 1937.*
> 
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net 
> <mailto:k6dgw at foothill.net>> wrote:
> 
> Yes indeed!  For many years, unscrupulous electric power companies have
> 
> been capitalizing on the fact that they send electrons to our house and
> 
> charge us for them, we toast the bread with them, and then ... get this ...
> 
> the electrons we paid for go back to the power company!!  They get away
> 
> with this because none of us ever inspect our electricity closely.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> 
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> 
> Washoe County
>