Topics for Wednesday May 25: Memorial Day---- and The Apollo Program
Topics for Wednesday May 25: Memorial Day---- and The Apollo Program
Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day]) is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the United States armed forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly observed on May 30 from 1868 to 1970.
Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day to honor and mourn those who died while serving in the U.S. military. Many volunteers place an American flag on graves of military personnel in national cemeteries. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer in the United States.
Many cities and people have claimed to have first celebrated the event. In 1868, General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic called for a "Decoration Day", which was widely celebrated. By 1890, every Northern state had adopted it as a holiday. The World Wars turned it into a generalized day of remembrance, instead of just for the Civil War. In 1971, Congress standardized the holiday as "Memorial Day" and changed its observance to the last Monday in May.
Net Discussion Questions:
What do you do to commemorate Memorial Day?
Do you have any traditions that you observe?
The Apollo Program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972. It was first conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-person spacecraft to follow the one-person Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space.
Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. (61 YEARS AGO TODAY)
It was the third US human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by the two-person Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module (LM) on July 20, 1969, and walked on the lunar surface, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command and service module (CSM), and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last, Apollo 17, in December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve people walked on the Moon.
Net Discussion Questions:
Did you follow the Apollo Program?
What technologies, developed for the space program, are in use today?
Do you believe that the Moon Landing occurred? Sorry, there are some who think it was staged. Your thoughts.
Topics for Monday May 23: Bonnie and Clyde---- and Monkey Pox
Bonnie and Clyde, in full Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, (respectively, born October 1, 1910, Rowena, Texas, U.S.—died May 23, 1934, near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana; born March 24, 1909, Telico, Texas, U.S.—died May 23, 1934, near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana), robbery team that became notorious in the United States through their flamboyant encounters with police and the sensationalization of their exploits by the country’s newspapers.
Barrow had been a criminal long before he met Parker in January 1930. After 20 months in prison in 1930–32, he teamed up with Parker, and the two began a crime spree that lasted 21 months. Often working with confederates—including Barrow’s brother Buck and Buck’s wife, Blanche, as well as Ray Hamilton and W.D. Jones—Bonnie and Clyde, as they were popularly known, robbed gas stations, restaurants, and small-town banks—their take never exceeded $1,500—chiefly in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Missouri.
In December 1932 the FBI learned of an abandoned automobile in Michigan that had been stolen in Oklahoma. A search in Oklahoma of a second stolen car linked both automobiles to Barrow and Parker through a prescription bottle that had been filled for Barrow’s aunt. Further investigation led the FBI to issue a warrant against the couple for interstate transportation of the second stolen automobile on May 20, 1933. During that year Barrow and Parker engaged in several shootouts with police. In November 1933 police in Dallas, Texas, attempted to capture them near Grand Prairie, but they escaped. In January 1934 in Waldo, Texas, they helped engineer the escape of five prisoners, during which two guards were killed. On April 1, 1934, Barrow and Parker murdered two police officers in Grapevine, Texas, and five days later they killed a police constable in Miami, Oklahoma, and kidnapped a police chief. They were eventually betrayed by a friend, and police officers from Texas and Louisiana ambushed the couple along a highway between the towns of Gibsland and Sailes in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934. After they attempted to flee the roadblock, police opened fire, killing them.
The legendary quality of Barrow’s and Parker’s careers is not difficult to understand, given the extreme desperation of the times. Their crime spree occurred at the height of the Great Depression, which hit particularly hard in states such as Oklahoma. Several bank robbers during this period became famous as “Robin Hood” figures who struck back against the banks, which many people viewed as oppressive. The duo was depicted in the highly successful 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, which spread the Bonnie and Clyde myth beyond the United States and helped to promote a kind of “gangster chic,” especially in fashion, in Europe and Japan.
Everybody should be concerned’ about monkeypox, Biden warns
President Biden raised the alarm Sunday about monkeypox, a viral infection fast spreading around the world, and warned that the disease, which can be spread as easily as through handling a contaminated object, is something “that everybody should be concerned about.”
Monkeypox, rarely seen outside Africa, has been found in recent weeks in Europe and the United States.
As of Saturday, 92 cases and 28 suspected cases had been identified in 12 countries outside of those African nations where it is endemic, according to the World Health Organization. There has been one confirmed case in the United States — a man in Boston was diagnosed last week — but public health officials believe case numbers will soon increase.
Although only occasionally fatal, the speed at which the monkeypox virus is spreading has raised fears of another pandemic that would further strain health systems already stretched thin by COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is “no proven, safe treatment” for monkeypox, but the Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of smallpox vaccines and antiviral treatments to help control outbreaks.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, said later Sunday that the United States had the resources, including the smallpox vaccines, to keep the virus at bay.
“I am confident we’re going to be able to keep our arms around it,” Jha said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“We’re going to track it very closely and use the tools we have to make sure that we continue to prevent further spread and take care of the people who get infected,” he said.
Two smallpox vaccines are approved for use in the United States, and they are generally effective at preventing monkeypox infection as well. (One is specifically approved for that purpose.) The United States has stockpiled millions of doses for use in a possible outbreak.
Most of the cases outside Africa have been found in Britain, Spain, and Portugal. On Sunday, Austria reported its first case.
The case reported last week in Boston was the first in the United States in nearly two decades. The man who got ill had recently traveled to Canada, which has had two cases this year.
The United States saw a monkeypox outbreak of dozens of cases in 2003. All were believed to have resulted from exposure to infected prairie dogs and other pets.
The virus can spread via body fluids, contaminated objects, and skin contact, or through respiratory droplets expelled by an infected person.
New York City health authorities said Friday that they had tested two patients who were under investigation for possible monkeypox.
Monkeypox creates a rash that starts with flat red marks that become raised and filled with pus. Infected people will also have a fever and body aches.
Symptoms typically appear in six to 13 days but can take as long as three weeks after exposure. They can last for two to four weeks, with severe cases occurring more commonly among children, according to the WHO.
Topics for Wednesday May 18: Museums ---- and Coax Cable
International Museum Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
International Museum Day (IMD) is an international day held annually on or around 18 May, coordinated by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The event highlights a specific theme which changes every year reflecting a relevant theme or issue facing museums internationally.
IMD provides the opportunity for museum professionals to meet the public and alert them as to the challenges that museums face, and raise public awareness on the role museums play in the development of society. It also promotes dialogue between museum professionals.
History
The first International Museum Day took place in 1977, coordinated by ICOM. IMD was established following the adoption of a resolution by ICOM to create an annual event "with the aim of further unifying the creative aspirations and efforts of museums and drawing the attention of the world public to their activity.”
Each year, museum internationally are invited to participate in IMD to promote the role of museums around in the world. They do so through events and activities related to the annual theme.
An annual theme for the event was first adopted in 1992. An international poster from ICOM was first developed in 1997, and in that year was adapted by 28 countries.
In 2009, IMD attracted the participation of 20,000 museums hosting events in more than 90 countries.
In 2010, 98 countries participated in the celebration, with 100 countries in 2011, and 30,000 museums in 129 countries in 2012.
In 2011, the official IMD poster was translated into 37 languages.
By 2014, 35,000 museums from 140 countries were taking part in IMD.
Themes past 10 years
· 2022 – The Power of Museums
· 2021 – The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine
· 2020 – Museum for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion[7]
· 2019 – Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition[8]
· 2018 – Hyperconnected museum: New approaches, new publics[9]
· 2017 – Museums and Contested Histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums[10]
· 2016 – Museums and Cultural Landscapes
· 2015 – Museums for a Sustainable Society[5]
· 2014 – Museum collections make connections
· 2013 – Museums (memory + creativity = social change)
· 2012 – Museums in a changing world. New challenges, new inspirations
Timeline
2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IMD 2020 under the theme, Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion, was primarily marked with virtual events.
2021
In 2021, the IMD theme focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums, and how they can recover from the impact under the theme The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine.
During the pandemic the world's top 100 museums saw visitor numbers fall by 77%
Net Discussion Questions:
· What is your favorite Museum(s)?
o Why?
· Different types of Museums, what’s best?
o Interactive
§ Boston Science Museum
§ Patriots Hall Of Fame (Foxboro)
§ Chatham Maritime Museum
o Traditional
§ Isabella Stewart Gardiner
§ Harvard Museum of Natural History
RADIO PROGRAMMING
Most all of us on frequency tonight own or have used radios that require channels programming.
Very simple question:
What is your approach to setting up your programmable radios?
Net Discussion Questions:
· Have you ever programmed a radio?
· What software have you used?
· What is your organization method?
· What tips or tricks can you share with the group?
Topics for Monday May 16: Finland and Sweden ---- and Coax Cable
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s prime minister announced Monday that Sweden will join Finland in seeking NATO membership in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a historic shift that comes after more than 200 years of military nonalignment in the Nordic country.
The move, which is likely to upset the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, came after neighboring Finland announced Sunday that it too would seek to join the 30-country military alliance.
Once a regional military power, Sweden has avoided military alliances since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like Finland it remained neutral throughout the Cold War, but formed closer relations with NATO after the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Source: Associated Press
Net Questions
Will Finland and Sweden joining NATO destabilize Europe in the future?
Good idea or bad idea-- and Why?
Do you have one or more coax switches? What types?
Net Questions
What kinds of coax cable have you used and what type the most?
Why have you used these types?
Do you have one or more coax switches? What types and brands?
Topics for Wednesday May 11: Root Canals and P25
NATIONAL ROOT CANAL APPRECIATION DAY – 2ND WEDNESDAY IN MAY
Root canals are one of the most common and misunderstood dental procedures. They help clear teeth of infection and help prevent cavities to protect them. This is all done by a dentist, and dentists don’t get enough days of recognition to celebrate their accomplishments.
National Root Canal Appreciation Day aims to change that fact by teaching people about root canals and to appreciate how dentists help protect teeth for everyone.
History of National Root Canal Appreciation Day
National Root Canal Appreciation Day began under the most unusual of circumstances. The holiday was created in 2005 by dentist Dr. Chris Krammer. Dr. Krammer is not just a dentist – He’s a rock-n-roll dentist.
He gained notoriety through performing his original rap song “Get Out the Brush” at Madison Mallard’s collegiate league ballpark. His performance inspired 5,991 baseball fans to brush their teeth simultaneously.
Since then, he had appeared on American Idol and other venues to teach people about the importance of dental care through his music. That record was surpassed by a Colgate-sponsored event at the San Salvador’s Cuscatlán Stadium in El Salvador. National Root Canal Appreciation Day marks the occasion in hopes of giving recognition to dental specialists everywhere.
People can also learn about the importance of root canal care on National Root Canal Appreciation Day. The pulp inside of teeth that contain nerves and tissue can become infected.
Root canals are performed to help clear out this infection and protect the tooth from further damage. Root canals are one of the most used procedures by dentists because of their ability to prevent decay.
Tooth infections can also spread throughout the body, meaning that a Root Canal can actually save your life. National Root Canal Appreciation Day aims to appreciate the work that dentists do for their patients all over the world.
On this day, people take extra precautions to care for their teeth, such as flossing and mouthwash. They also give thanks to their personal dentists by giving gifts and spreading the holiday through social media and school posters.
How to celebrate National Root Canal Appreciation Day
Anyone who loves their dentists and loves taking care of their teeth can celebrate this holiday! But, even if you don’t, you can still thank your dentists for their hard work.
Send them a thank you card with an attached gift. You can learn how root canals are done and use this as an opportunity to take better care of your teeth.
If you find root canals to be an interesting topic, then share this information with your friends. Help support dentists everywhere by making their job easier. By doing the basic hygiene for your teeth, you and your dentist will be grateful for it.
NET DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Have you ever had a root canal?
Was it painful?
Was it successful?
P25 DIGITAL RADIO
P25, or Project 25, is a suite of standards developed to provide digital voice and data communication systems suited to public safety and first responders. Project 25 was initiated by the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, or APCO. APCO International is the world’s oldest and largest organization of public safety communications professionals.
Since 1935, APCO International have run a series of projects aimed at solving unique problems telecommunications professionals’ encounter. Project 25 concerns the development of a standard for digital radio equipment embracing the public safety-focused features of interoperability, spectrum efficiency, and cost economies.
An important feature of P25 is that the development is user-driven. The needs of public safety professionals are paramount. Project 25 is not finished. The standards are constantly being enhanced and refined as new requirements are identified.
Another key aspect of P25 is the importance of migration strategies and backwards compatibility with existing equipment. Digital P25 radios even include an analog mode of operation that is compatible with existing FM radio equipment.
The Telecommunications Industry Association, or TIA, formulates and maintains the TIA-102 series of standards for APCO P25, on behalf of APCO International.
The Project 25 standards enable interoperability among multiple manufacturers of P25 products. This results in a greater range of products, both mobile and portable radios used by front line staff and also the network equipment, stored on hilltops and in dispatch centers.
Multiple manufacturers allow for price competition, both during the initial tender for a new radio system and throughout the life of the system as it’s expanded and maintained. It also allows for different agencies to communicate together, even if they’ve purchased their P25 equipment from different vendors.
NET DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Do you own a P25 radio?
What are the main benefits?
How does it compare with other digital modes like DMR, D-STAR and FUSION?
Topics for Monday May 9: Enigma and Field Day 2022
May 9th 1941 British intelligence at Bletchley Park breaks German spy codes after capturing Enigma machines aboard the weather ship Muenchen
The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. The Enigma machine was considered so secure that it was used to encipher the most top-secret messages.
The Enigma has an electromechanical rotor mechanism that scrambles the 26 letters of the alphabet. In typical use, one person enters text on the Enigma's keyboard and another person writes down which of the 26 lights above the keyboard illuminated at each key press. If plain text is entered, the illuminated letters are the encoded ciphertext. Entering ciphertext transforms it back into readable plaintext. The rotor mechanism changes the electrical connections between the keys and the lights with each keypress.
The security of the system depends on machine settings that were generally changed daily, based on secret key lists distributed in advance, and on other settings that were changed for each message. The receiving station would have to know and use the exact settings employed by the transmitting station to successfully decrypt a message.
While Nazi Germany introduced a series of improvements to the Enigma over the years, and these hampered decryption efforts, they did not prevent Poland from cracking the machine prior to the war, enabling the Allies to exploit Enigma-enciphered messages as a major source of intelligence. Many commentators say the flow of Ultra communications intelligence from the decryption of Enigma, Lorenz, and other ciphers, shortened the war substantially, and might even have altered its outcome.
Source: Wiki
Are you familiar with the story of "Enigma" in WWII?
Can you identify the chap whose picture is at the bottom?
Have you read ay books or seen any movies about Enigma?
Rules & Resources | Facebook Group | T-shirts & Gear | Join ARRL
ARRL Field Day is always held on the 4th full weekend in June.
Any Field Day Plans Yet?
Topics for Wednesday May 4: Samuel B. Morse and Dymo Label Makers
Samuel F.B. Morse
Born: April 27, 1791 Charlestown Massachusetts (231 Years old)
Died: April 2, 1872 (aged 80) New York City New York
Inventions:
Samuel F.B. Morse, in full Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American painter and inventor who developed an electric telegraph (1832–35).
In 1838 he and his friend Alfred Vail developed the Morse Code.
He was the son of the distinguished geographer and Congregational clergyman. From Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he had been an unsteady and eccentric student, his parents sent him to Yale College (now Yale University) in New Haven, Connecticut. Although he was an indifferent scholar, his interest was aroused by lectures on the then little-understood subject of electricity. To the distress of his austere parents, he also enjoyed painting miniature portraits.
After graduating from Yale in 1810, Morse became a clerk for a Boston book publisher. But painting continued to be his main interest, and in 1811 his parents helped him go to England in order to study that art with American painter Washington Allston. Like the majority of Americans of his time, however, he accepted English artistic standards, including the “historical” style of painting—the Romantic portrayal of legends and historical events with personalities gracing the foreground in grand poses and brilliant colors.
When, on his return home in 1815, Morse found that Americans did not appreciate his historical canvases, he reluctantly took up portraiture again to earn a living. He began as an itinerant painter in New England, New York, and South Carolina. After 1825, on settling in New York City, he painted some of the finest portraits ever done by an American artist. He combined technical competence and a bold rendering of his subjects’ character with a touch of the Romanticism he had imbibed in England.
In 1832, while returning by ship from studying art in Europe, Morse conceived the idea of an electric telegraph as the result of hearing a conversation about the newly discovered electromagnet. Although the idea of an electric telegraph had been put forward in 1753 and electric telegraphs had been used to send messages over short distances as early as 1774, Morse believed that his was the first such proposal. He probably made his first working model by 1835.
Meanwhile, Morse was still devoting most of his time to painting, teaching art at the University of the City of New York (later New York University), and to politics (he ran on anti-immigrant and anti-Roman Catholic tickets for mayor of New York in 1836 and 1841). But by 1837 he had turned his full attention to the new invention. A colleague at the university, chemist Leonard Gale, introduced Morse to Joseph Henry’s work on electromagnetism. The powerful electromagnets that Henry had devised allowed Morse to send messages over 16 km (10 miles) of wire, a much longer distance than the 12 meters (40 feet) over which his first model could transmit. A friend, Alfred Vail, offered to provide materials and labor to build models in his family’s ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey. Gale and Vail became partners in Morse’s telegraph rights. By 1838 he and Vail had developed the system of dots and dashes that became known throughout the world as the Morse Code.
In 1838, while unsuccessfully attempting to interest Congress in building a telegraph line, he acquired Maine Congressman F.O.J. Smith as an additional partner. After failing to organize the construction of a Morse line in Europe, Morse alone among his partners persevered in promoting the telegraph, and in 1843 he was finally able to obtain financial support from Congress for the first telegraph line in the United States, from Baltimore to Washington. In 1844 the line was completed, and on May 24 he sent the first message, “What hath God wrought.”
Morse was immediately involved in legal claims by his partners and by rival inventors. A natural controversialist like his father, he fought vigorously in this and other controversies, such as those in art with painter John Trumbull, in religion with Unitarians and Roman Catholics, in politics with the Irish and abolitionists, and in daguerreotypy—of which he was one of the first practitioners in America—with Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s pupil, François Gouraud. The legal battles over the telegraph culminated in an 1854 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established his patent rights. As telegraph lines lengthened on both sides of the Atlantic, his wealth and fame increased.
In his old age, Morse, a patriarch with a flowing beard, became a philanthropist. He gave generously to Vassar College, of which he was a founder and trustee; to his alma mater, Yale College; and to churches, theological seminaries, Bible societies, mission societies, and temperance societies, as well as to poor artists.
Even during Morse’s own lifetime, the world was much changed by the telegraph. In the decades after his death in 1872, his fame as an inventor was obscured by the invention of the telephone, radio, television, and the Internet, while his reputation as an artist has grown.
At one time he did not wish to be remembered as a portrait painter, but his powerful and sensitive portraits, among them those of President John Adams, Marquis de Lafayette, the American writer William Cullen Bryant, and other prominent men, have been exhibited throughout the United States.
The number of Morse telegraphic operators has decreased sharply, but his memory is perpetuated by the Morse Telegraph Club (1942), an association dedicated to the history of telegraphy. His 1837 telegraph instrument is preserved by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., while his estate, Locust Grove, is now designated a national historic landmark.
Samuel Morse Net Discussion Topics:
Did you know that Samuel Morse was an accomplished fine art/portrait painter?
Did you know that he was very conservative and had some “controversial” views of life in those times.
Did you learn Morse Code for your Ham license?
Do you use it today?
DYMO
Whenever you hear the name DYMO®, it's impossible not to think of labels… all kinds of labels. From the raised-letter embossed type to smooth and long-lasting thermal transfers, DYMO labels are the perfect solution for keeping everything from kitchen canisters and school supplies to storage shelves and network cables organized and easily identifiable. So how did the company whose name is synonymous with labels and label printers grow from a small US-based company into a global force with thousands of employees worldwide? Let's take a look.
Founded in California by Rudolph Hurwich in 1958, DYMO® was originally known as DYMO Industries, and was the first company to introduce personal embossing label makers for home and office labeling.
DYMO's handheld embossers caught on rapidly, becoming the go-to product line for labeling and identification needs. By the late 1960s, DYMO® label makers not only had a strong following in the United States, but in Europe as well – so much that the company decided to establish a European headquarters in Sint Niklaas, Belgium.
In 1978, DYMO® was acquired by – and brought under the umbrella of – Esselte Office products, a global leader in the manufacture of office supplies. Thanks to Esselte's influence and established presence the world over, DYMO's distribution within the office products industry was dramatically increased.
In 1990, DYMO® introduced what was to become its largest and most successful business segment to date: battery-powered electronic label printers. With their high quality printing capabilities and features like digital displays, built-in keyboards and multiple formatting functions, DYMO's electronic label makers became incredibly popular and led to enormous company growth throughout the following decade.
In 1998, DYMO's parent company, Esselte Office Products, acquired the CoStar Corporation, a Connecticut-based firm that had already developed a market for the LabelWriter®, a compact label printer that could be connected to both PC and Macintosh computers. The LabelWriter® was a totally unique product, in that it allowed users to print one label at a time – as opposed to entire printer sheets worth – directly from their desktop computers.
By 2000, CoStar's LabelWriter® had become the DYMO LabelWriter®, making DYMO's labeling and identification product line the most complete one on the market.
DYMO® is now a Newell-Rubbermaid company, since being acquired in November 2005 for $730 million (USD).
Dymo Net Discussion Topics
Do you have a Dymo machine?
What types of things do you use it for?
Topics for May 2: Wago Connectors and Dr. Benjamin Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock
(May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician and liberal political activist whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946 and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise to mothers was that they "know more than you think you do. Spock's parenting advice and recommendations revolutionized parental upbringing in the United States, and he is considered to be amongst the most famous and influential Americans of the 20th century.
Net Questions
Were you a Doctor Spock baby?
How would you characterize Dr. Spock's style/philosophy?
WAGO CONNECTORS
Whether in a junction or distribution box, WAGO's wire and splicing connectors offer you the right product for every installation job. Push-in termination or lever-actuated, our solutions save time and money.
Your benefits:
Fast and easy to use
The right connector for every application
Minimal space requirements enable high wiring density
Clearly organized wiring in control cabinets and junction boxes
Maintenance-free installation
Permanent, secure connections
Net Questions
Have you used or heard of Wago connectors?
Do you see any ham radio applications?
Advantages for house wiring (switches, outlets, etc.?)