[BC] bird kill

[khcs@juno.com]

Chuck recalled:

>There is a rumor that this is how the Bird Wattmeter came about.
At one time you could gauge the power of a radiating antenna system by counting the number of  bird carcasses found on the premisis daily.

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Perhaps you have gotten the story from the old SBE magazine switched around.  That told about how engineer/inventor Ward Watt had been having difficulty in calculating the imbirdance effect of our feathered friends on antenna radiation.  Just about the time he had calculated the imbirdance value, a bunch of birds would fly in and flock-up the calculations.  So that's what led him to invent the Watt Birdmeter.



Glen Kippel
KHCS
Palm Desert, CA