[rescue] radio

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larrys at lexis-nexis.com writes:

>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-

It generates more heat than I was thinking, so if it ever ends up
in a rack with computer gear, it will be at the top, and probably a
few feet away from anything else.

------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- http://www.cca.org ------
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