[R-390] WWV kebelsa Frequency Standard

[rbethman]

This could be up for a REAL test!  I wonder how beef jerky compares to 
fully smoked kielbasa

Bob - N0DGN

William J. Neill wrote:
> Texas A&M Agricultural School runs a meat processing laboratory and as 
> an adjunct to that, has a meat sales store open to the public 
> (http://meat.tamu.edu/sales.html).
>
> Various meat products are offered, polish sausage included and, in 
> particular, a rather nice beef jerky.  I would like to suggest that 
> the beef jerky, given that it is sold dried and has a prolonged shelf 
> life, for lack of a  better term, could, if properly chopped and 
> channeled, provide remarkably stable frequency standards, tunable with 
> somewhat ancient tuning forks.  It does have a relatively low 
> impedance if cut too thin.
>
> Perhaps the only considerations necessary to placing such "units" in 
> your receivers would be protecting them from cats and other critters 
> given the odors the jerky would emit once the receiver(s) achieved 
> full operation temperature.
>
> Bill Neill
> Conroe, People's Democratic Republic of Texas

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Bob - NØDGN