[R-390] WWV kebelsa Frequency Standard

[Cecil Acuff]

Not sure....we had some pretty good turkey jerky this last week.  It might 
be viable as well...

Maybe we could take some old filters and find a way to grow some mechanical 
filter stem cells and reproduce parts for anything that fails in the 
radio...maintain the DNA of the old girl in the process.

Cecilia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "William J. Neill" <wjneill at consolidated.net>; "Cecil Acuff" 
<chacuff at cableone.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] WWV kebelsa Frequency Standard


> 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
>
>