[rescue] radio

[Larry Snyder]

Cool!  It's more supportable than you may initially think, and certainly
(as has been noted) collectable.  You may want to think about where
you locate it, though.  The amount of RF crap emanating from suns/ciscos/
whatever could be very detrimental to performance.  Get a feel for how
it works in another room with the antenna tossed as far away from the
DP equipment as you can.  If you can bring yourself to halt the boxen
and power off it would be even better (yeah, right :-).  RF obeys the
inverse square law:  moving the antenna 4X as  far away from the source
gets you 1/16 the strength.  You'll have some birdies from the computers,
but if you can get past them you'll find you have a neat toy!
-ls-

dave at cca.org wrote:
> I just scored a 1940s short wave radio off the curb.
> 
> "Hallicrafters SX-42", if that means anything to anyone.
> (I know nothing about radio.)
> 
> All the tubes are in place, and it passes the smoke test.
> Gorgeous front panel on it. I even got the speaker it originally
> came with.
> 
> As soon as I can find something to use as an antenna, I'll
> know if it's functional...
> 
> I think this is going to wind up in a rack between my
> Suns and my cisco.... :-)
> 
> ------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- http://www.cca.org ------
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