[BC] Stooopid Engineering Wins

[Kent Winrich, K9EZ]

Phil Alexander wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2006 at 19:20, Kent Winrich, K9EZ wrote:
>
> > Phil Alexander wrote:
> >
> > > Snipped.....
> > >
> > >
> > >The history of engineering is filled with examples of inferior ideas
> > >becoming *the* industry standard because they had "the money" behind
> > >them. This is true for automobiles, electronics, and almost any sector
> > >of engineering for manufactured products you can name. Money, not the
> > >best technology decides the issue. That is the hard reality. To
> > >believe otherwise *is* unenlightened.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Witness the VHS vs Beta battle.  Beta was better but VHS won out.
>
> Yes, and most AM's have series fed towers too. <g>
>
> Run feed point Z curves on a slant wire sometime and you'll see
> what I mean. Talk about nearly infinite b/w ... try a slant wire.
>
> But the biggest one of all time is probably automatic transmissions
> in cars. The hydrostatic design is used on much heavy equipment
> because it is more versatile, easier to control and infinitely
> variable. As I understand it, the reason was by the time Detroit
> saw presentations they had plans for building hydrodynamic
> transmission plants for use in the early '50's cars. Re-engineering
> the cars that were slated to get A/T and the plants to make them
> was considered to great an expense, and since then, they have done
> transmissions the same as always. Thus we have P-R-N-D-L rather than
> infinitely variable trannys that would run the engine at an optimum
> speed, increasing mileage and cutting emissions.
>
>
> Phil Alexander
>
Our Ford Freestyle has one of the Volvo Constant Velocity 
transmissions.  It is weird to have the engine stay at one RPM yet the 
vehicle accelerates.

Back to radio...
Now  if I could only feed my NINE towers (One station) with slant 
feeds.......