[rescue] radio

[Kevin Loch]

Actually, Suns are very good about RF emissions.  They
are better than just about anything in the house.

KL

Larry Snyder wrote:
> 
> 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 ------
> > ---------------------- "It's something to do." Cerebus --------------------
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