I'm in the middle of planning out a radio tower for the new Franklin County EOC, and two quotes came to mind that are worth mentioning here. The first is from the very best source, author unknown:
Always and Everywhere,Mission drives Hardware
I'd like to tattoo this on some people's foreheads. Reversed of course, so that they could just look in a mirror as needed.
The second of course is from Robert A. Heinlein:
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
RAH may be an even more unassailable source of quotations than either Mark Twain or Winston Churchill. Probably not the two combined, however.
Thus ends my smartassery for the afternoon. Time to get down to some Egli calculations in order to nail down just how high this antenna has to be. Because "as high as we have budget to build!" holds no water whatsoever with me, and in fact actively ticks me off a good bit.
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