On 5 Sep 2009 20:10:22 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:33:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 5 Sep 2009 16:17:11 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> 
>>>Hmmm, so that would be......Aldwych? <gd&rvvf>
>> 
>> Buzz - Repetition ;)
>
>Dammit! ;-)
>
>Victoria, then. ;-)
>
>

Off Air :)
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     Stephen

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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:06:39 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 5 Sep 2009 20:10:22 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:33:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 5 Sep 2009 16:17:11 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>Hmmm, so that would be......Aldwych? <gd&rvvf>
>>> 
>>> Buzz - Repetition ;)
>>
>>Dammit! ;-)
>>
>>Victoria, then. ;-)
>>
>>
>>
> Off Air :)

Underwater? ;-)

Jim

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On 6 Sep 2009 12:18:07 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:06:39 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 5 Sep 2009 20:10:22 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> 
>>>On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:33:01 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5 Sep 2009 16:17:11 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>Hmmm, so that would be......Aldwych? <gd&rvvf>
>>>> 
>>>> Buzz - Repetition ;)
>>>
>>>Dammit! ;-)
>>>
>>>Victoria, then. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Off Air :)
>
>Underwater? ;-)
>

Possibly the Navy Lark.
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     Stephen

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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:28:07 +0100, Stephen wrote:

>>> Off Air :)
>>
>>Underwater? ;-)
>>
>>
> Possibly the Navy Lark.

I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show.  Just started series 7.

Jim

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On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show.  Just started series 7.

I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's internet
radio and it's connected to my laptop.
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     Stephen

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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:04:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show.  Just started series
>>7.
> 
> I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's
> internet radio and it's connected to my laptop.

Cool, we might add that back to the list after Navy Lark.

Jim

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On 6 Sep 2009 16:18:58 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:04:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> 
>>>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show.  Just started series
>>>7.
>> 
>> I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's
>> internet radio and it's connected to my laptop.
>
>Cool, we might add that back to the list after Navy Lark.
>

The Navy Lark goes back quite a few years and there is a lot of it, some of the
quality is very poor. :(
I've got quite a few recordings if you need any.
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     Stephen

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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:44:04 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2009 16:18:58 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:04:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 6 Sep 2009 12:36:14 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>I think that's next after we finish The Goon Show.  Just started
>>>>series 7.
>>> 
>>> I'm listening to "Hamish And Dougal" again. I just set up my wife's
>>> internet radio and it's connected to my laptop.
>>
>>Cool, we might add that back to the list after Navy Lark.
>>
>>
> The Navy Lark goes back quite a few years and there is a lot of it, some
> of the quality is very poor. :(
> I've got quite a few recordings if you need any.

Thanks for that - will let you know if I find myself missing any. :-)

Jim

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> But trees encroach on power lines all the time.  I can look out my window 
> and see half a dozen...

You have one of these outside your window? o_O

http://www.idonohoe.com/biking/gallery/pylon.jpg

If you mean the low voltage cables on wooden poles that are much closer to 
the ground, then maybe those ones are insulated (we don't have many of those 
here, the cables mostly go underground once they come off the pylons)?  They 
don't have to go long distances so the extra cost is probably justified by 
the high risk of stuff hitting them.

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> You win the thread! There's less resistance along the current path (the 
> wire) then the sheet of water.

Ermm, I don't know if you're joking here or not.  But for the sake of 
everyone else, this is not how electricity works!  It does NOT "choose" the 
lowest resistance path and ignore anything else, it follows Ohm's law (V=IR) 
for every part of the circuit.

Because the voltage is so high on power lines, even a HUGE resistance (like 
a human body, or a wet tree, for example) will make a pretty large current 
flow, certainly enough to kill you or catch the tree on fire.

As a quick calculation, put a 10 MOhm resistance (millions of times higher 
than the resistance along the current path) between a 400 kV power line and 
ground, whilst the *current* through the resistor will "only" be 40 mA, the 
power that needs to be dissipated by the resistor will be 16 kW, enough to 
fry most things pretty quickly :-)

Also, I suspect the electricity company would be *really* interested if they 
were losing 16 kW at each connection point along their power line!

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