tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post7036614915970813938..comments2024-01-29T17:51:55.608+00:00Comments on Nige's Diet & Nutrition Blog: The Capacitive Bottom-fed Fat Monopole.Nigel Kinbrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-81907093620349957542012-04-09T12:08:00.546+01:002012-04-09T12:08:00.546+01:00I was vetted to a level high enough to allow me to...I was vetted to a level high enough to allow me to work on hand-held radios which contained plug-in encryption units to a high & secret encryption standard.<br /><br />Funnily-enough, the above radios were for the security forces in NI. Radios for other customers contained Racal encryption units.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-57253109560993831052012-04-09T11:11:50.305+01:002012-04-09T11:11:50.305+01:00In a former life I worked as an outside consultant...In a former life I worked as an outside consultant for DGW(N), Bath. It was tasked for procurement of weapons and other equipment for installation at first build and refits for RN.<br /><br />I was negatively vetted to level Secret non-Nuclear ( can no longer recall the jargon). This was during Balcombe St. etc.<br /><br />"But that was in another country,<br />And besides, the wench is dead"<br /><br />PS It a VERY slow holiday Monday!!LeonRoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484097018449402128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-26383686104035639572012-04-09T09:42:00.413+01:002012-04-09T09:42:00.413+01:00I'm a "hands-on" kinda guy who likes...I'm a "hands-on" kinda guy who likes solving techy problems. Theoretical Physics goes right over my head.<br /><br />Writing about stuff that I designed yonks ago is helping my memory, which on occasion has resembled Emmenthal.<br /><br />I shall do some more posts about stuff that I designed without going into too much detail, as I'm still constrained by the Official Secrets Act.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-57027414393950270082012-04-09T08:56:30.932+01:002012-04-09T08:56:30.932+01:00I thought at the beginning you might discourse on ...I thought at the beginning you might discourse on the magnetic monopole, long seen as a missing member of the set of elementary particles.<br /><br />I recall one of my (ancient) physics profs, who himself made his bones researching high energy gammas in the 1920s using balloons, giving a talk to 2nd years on this topic. (We were baffled until quantum in our 4th year).<br /><br />I do not believe that physics teams near Geneva, currently (sic!) hunting the Higg's Snark will find it either.<br /><br />The debacle with synchronizing satellite clock links, thus "finding" hyperluminary neutrinos was somewhat bizarre.<br /><br />Slainte and hope you enjoyed Boat Race.LeonRoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484097018449402128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-89162825475487511792012-04-08T16:02:35.066+01:002012-04-08T16:02:35.066+01:00It's a military product, so no.
It's an O...It's a military product, so no.<br /><br />It's an Olive Green Drab metal tube of about an inch diameter and a foot and a half long, with black plastic caps at top and bottom, a chemically-blackened barrel spring at the bottom and an N-type RF plug beneath that.Nigel Kinbrumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03368973941328529619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174025374821038087.post-74287546143973149122012-04-08T15:25:47.632+01:002012-04-08T15:25:47.632+01:00No pics of the actual antenna?No pics of the actual antenna?praguestepchildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04219985675023163249noreply@blogger.com