[R-390] WWV kebelsa Frequency Standard

[William J. Neill]

With prejudice on my part, I think beef jerky the superior product  
from a purely technical perspective simply because when energized, it  
does not tend to cook in its own fat, so to speak, as kielbasa is  
wont to do.  Such a tendency can, of course, have a deleterious  
effect upon any components adjacent to the kielbasa unless the  
kielbasa is properly encased and, ideally, vented.

Venting is crucial simply because it is known, through extensive  
testing by the A&M Ag School, that kielbasa fumes, if allowed to  
accumulate, have the same explosive propensities as an empty bottle  
once containing acetylene.  You cannot run full business after a  
kielbasa vapour explosion in your rig.  As it is, such an event will  
attract what will be very unwanted attn by the XYL.

Best wishes,
Bill Neill

On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:01 PM, rbethman wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Bob - NØDGN
>