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Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott
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On 10/6/2005 10:17 PM Jim Adney wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:50:29 -0700 "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't know if there is a specification for how sensitive the pickup
>>loop has to be, whether that specification is sufficient for it to sense
>>a bike, and how to find out whether my city's (Carlsbad, CA) sensors are
>>supposed to meet that spec.
>
>
> Carlsbad? No kidding! I lived there for nearly a year in '73-4 when I
> was working for Masi south of town.
>
> Is it still a rather sleepy little town with no one there between the
> age of 25 and 45?
Yup. Although "sleepy" is relative -- all of San Diego county has seen
massive land grabbing and overbuilding. Endless seas of identical pink
stucco houses. Remember the flower fields behind Anderson's split pea
windmill? Picture a hotel and several commercial buildings at the top
where there the flower formerly met the sky.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:50:29 -0700 "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>I don't know if there is a specification for how sensitive the pickup
>>loop has to be, whether that specification is sufficient for it to sense
>>a bike, and how to find out whether my city's (Carlsbad, CA) sensors are
>>supposed to meet that spec.
>
>
> Carlsbad? No kidding! I lived there for nearly a year in '73-4 when I
> was working for Masi south of town.
>
> Is it still a rather sleepy little town with no one there between the
> age of 25 and 45?
Yup. Although "sleepy" is relative -- all of San Diego county has seen
massive land grabbing and overbuilding. Endless seas of identical pink
stucco houses. Remember the flower fields behind Anderson's split pea
windmill? Picture a hotel and several commercial buildings at the top
where there the flower formerly met the sky.
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR