In this note we present some one-parameter families of homogeneous
self-similar measures on the line such that
- the similarity dimension is greater than 1 for all parameters and
- the singularity of some of the self-similar measures from this family is
not caused by exact overlaps between the cylinders.
We can obtain such a family as the angle-α projections of the natural
measure of the Sierpi'nski carpet. We present more general one-parameter
families of self-similar measures να, such that the set of parameters
α for which να is singular is a dense Gδ set but this
“exceptional” set of parameters of singularity has zero Hausdorff dimension.