NB> It never ceases to amaze me some of the stuff that's available on the 
NB> market that a person can throw together with stuff they already have 
NB> on 
NB> hand. I once built what I called a "Longwire Longwave Filter." It was 
NB> enclosed in a 35mm film can, and what it did was filter all the MW 
NB> garbage 
NB> out of the longwave band. It improved longwave reveption 
NB> tremendously! When
NB> I showed it to a friend, he went nuts telling me that I oughta market 
NB> the 
NB> thing. Then I told him to open it up and he saw that all I did was 
NB> make a 
NB> toroidal choke out of a large ferrite bead. He couldn't believe it.
    Stuff like the $20 "antenna" to put next to an AM radio or the gadget 
that supposedly makes your household wiring a "super TV antenna" sells 
because so many Americans are so stupid when it comes to anything scientific, 
yet these are the sheeple that Clinton and Gore want to convince of global 
warming.
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