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Originally Posted by Woodsy
Unfortunately you are wrong again...
Once again you have ventured in to an area you have very little understanding of.... You can't fix stupid.
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Woodsy,
Again, you insult the intelligence of those who disagree with you rather than debate the facts with civility.
The degradation of sound at the rates you describe relate only to sound emitted from a
point source (like fireworks in the air), not from a directed source, like a gun or an exhaust pipe. This is why megaphones are shaped to focus sound waves and eliminate that degradation. The waves propegate from the point source in a growing sphere. Sound intensity, measured in dB's, is a measurement of power per unit area. Since the sphere is growing as it leaves the source, its area increases as the square of the distance from the source, while the power remains the same (in theory), hence the exponential decrease in intensity. If you have ever heard a loud cigarette boat approaching and passing you, you have noticed how much much louder it is going away from you, because you are then in its focused exhaust stream. The current noise testing procedure looks for the highest noise intensity as the boat approaches, passes and travels away from the dB meter. During the period where the boat is traveling away is ALWAYS when the tester realizes the highest intensity...when they are in that exhaust stream. I cannot say whether a boat that produces 88 dB (
4 times louder than the 82 dB limit currently allows) at idle when measured behind the exhaust stream will be louder at WOT than the current laws allow, but it certainly deserves a close look....wouldn't you agree? If this change in the law will allow louder boats, would you want to know that? And would you still support it?
Do you disagree that 88 dB is
four times louder than 82 dB?
BTW, I have boated on Lake George. It was a wonderful experience, but no, I do not want to move there. Since the speed limits were enacted, property values have gone through the roof...similar to those on our Squam, which also has a speed limit.