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"Michael A. Terrell" <michaelaterrell@netscape.net> wrote:
>Bob Wilson wrote:
>> hmbdude@nospamcotse.com says...
>> 
>> >"completely unkown in North America"? Maybe in Canada, but in other parts
>> >of North America WWVB offers equivalent functionality for consumer and
>> >professional applications.
>> 
>> Just as an added comment to my previous post, you seem not to understand the
>> principles of longwave transmission, if you think that WWVB will stop at
>> at the Canadian border!
>
>More condescending crap!  
>> 
>> WWVB transmits from Fort Collins, at a frequency of 60KHz. The reason for
>> this ultra-low frequency is to eliminate directionality, and to allow its
>> ground wave to travel large distances. Yes, even into our homes in Canada
>> that (as every American "knows") are igloos, and where it snows continuously
>> as soon as you cross the 49th parallel.
>> 
>> Bob.
>
> I was stationed at Ft Greely Alaska for a year, and as the Eskimos
>around the base told me, the only Igloos they ever saw were in "White
>man's books"

In that case, nobody should believe a word you say!

I lived a few miles up the road for a couple of _decades_...
and it happens there are virtually *no* Eskimos from the Delta
Junction area.  That is Athabascan Indian territory, and always
has been!  Did you really think those Indians were Eskimos????

(However, I'll concede that I have a whole family of Eskimos,
and not one of my in-laws claims that any ancestor of theirs
ever built an igloo.  The Polar Eskimos in northern central
Canada used igloos for temporary shelter, but no other Eskimos
did.)

>  As far as the snow, Ft Greely was between two mountain ranges, and
>after a while it got too cold and dry to snow.  BTW, the base was the US
>Army cold weather test site, and I had the fun job of keeping a radio
>and television station on the air, in that climate.

Why danged... that must have been difficult, inside those nice
heated buildings and all... ;-)

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson         <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                 floyd@barrow.com