Hi Ed!
EV> Thanks for the link, I will find a ROUNDTUIT and grab it soon.
BM> Friend of mine in Michigan has warned me they're on back order from
BM> China, so yours may be delayed also.
EV> Mine is here in the house somewhere, sneaky thing those
EV> ROUNDTUITS are.
BM> I've been trying to clean up up here in the Computer Room: "organized mess"
BM> probably best describes it. I know where (most of) the Stuff is, though
BM> have had that pleasant rediscovery as I go through.
EV> It's O.K. when You do it, when the wife does it that's a
EV> different thing.
That's about right! A while back did a quickie put away - remembered
where the items were originally but took a while to find them in their
new 'neat' place.
Have been going through stuff (when the Round ToIts allow!) and putting
in Banker's Boxes so of a consistent size for storage and easier to stack
on shelves. Some Bankers Boxes have boxes inside: don't need an entire
box for USB cables, plus now storing them by USB 2 and USB 3 (separate).
And it's not like the place is a hoarder's paradise, just needs a bit of
attention. Plus I'd rather bang on the keyboard or do something outside
in the yard. :)
BM> ... Is it true that you lose brain cells every time you watch the
BM> radio?
EV> I'm writing mainly about the Tagline in the message.
EV> Amateur Radio Operators (HAMS) must be some of the least
EV> brilliant people in the world if the Tagline is true.
BM> :) I don't know: the main gentleman who taught me the basics of
BM> electronics was a Ham and an Electronics Engineer and he seemed quite
BM> bright to me! Another gentleman who was friend of my parents also
BM> 'discovered' the filament circuit for Dad's amplifer wasn't designed
BM> correctly, which is why it was always blowing two tubes. He sort of
BM> verified my point of view that just because someone sells or does something
BM> doens't necessarily mean it's right. (That's not being
BM> phrased quite correctly.) Sort of verified my thoughts shortcuts are taken
BM> and if I see something that doesn't seem quite right fix it.
BM> ...Like maybe a cabinet should be supported better.
EV> Who made the amplifier? Bogen? Proably not Bogen, the one I saw
EV> in the mid-1950's at a friends home was the first Hi-Fi
EV> (Monaural) I ever knew of and it was a GREAT Unit.
IIRC Lafayette Radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Radio_Electronics. Won't
guarantee that's the correct manufacturer as has been several decades
since the unit finally failed at my parents' in NH and I had been living
out here in IA for around ten years.
EV> I had a problem with my Heath AA-32 Stereo Amplifier making noise
EV> on one side and went to a Clinic a Electronics Store held and was
EV> told there was a loose wire between the Output Tube and the
EV> Speaker Terminal Board. I went home and opened the case and
EV> soldered the loose wire back and the Amp was quite on both sides
EV> after that job.
Good! I had built for myself a Heathkit GR-3000 (much earlier while
still living in NH had built for my parents a GR-300) television. The channel,
time, etc., display would sometimes give the wrong letter. A
little notetaking as to which letter was improperly being displayed and
converting to binary led to determine was probably a certain data line
(3rd or 4th LSB) that was the problem. Only problem was I couldn't
figure out which was LSB or MSB from the schematic so instead of only
having to resolder two pads had to solder four. (Poor baby!! <g>)
Solved the problem! :)
EV> I was a SWL (Shortwave Listener) before I took the Novice Amateur
EV> Radio Test.
BM> Good place to start: listening and then participating. I built (from a
BM> kit) a short wave receiver -- one of the bands never did work. Had it
BM> checked b y at least one of the gentlemen who taught me (was decades
BM> ago) but never did find the error. Plenty to listen to even with the
BM> one band not available.
EV> At Church a Man and his Son built a Knight-Kit SW Receiver but
EV> couldn't hear any stations on it except when they touched a part
EV> inside the chassis.
EV> They let me take their Radio with the Assembly Manual home to
EV> look at it. The problem was a 2 Terminal Terminal Strip they put
EV> in turned the opposite way it should had been.
EV> The Isolated Terminal Had One Wire soldered to it and the
EV> Grounded Terminal Had Two Wires on it.
EV> I fixed it and told them what I found out.
EV> If they didn't have the Manual I wouldn't had been able to help
EV> them with their Radio.
EV> I just started from Step 1 and when I got to see how the Terminal
EV> Strip was mounted and wired in the illustration was different
EV> from what I saw in the chassis I fixed it. Yeah, Me, Ed fixed it.
Ta-daaa! Something easy enough to overlook.
The "works when touched" reminded me of a small AM-FM receiver someone
gave me because it started working only part of the time. No schematic
to work from; didn't see any bad solder joints, wasn't about to solder
every one! Somehow found out if put a wire to ground it would work
properly so just soldered in a jumper and gave back: "naaa, you can keep
it: I got a new one". So 'inheireted' a small portable radio, which
OTTOMH I have no idea what happened to it. Might be downstairs some
place (another cleanup project!!).
EV> ... I'm a slef-taught proggrammer
BM> Speling miss-steaks r oh-kay az long az consistant!
EV> Hey!, Tagline mis-spelling IS O.K.! they are suppose to make You
EV> <G R I N>.
That's where I dive into the box (see semi-joke explanation in a reply to Nancy)
and get a little picky: Dad was a decent speller, my Mother isn't
but then English is not her native language. I sort of went the
opposite direction and went for the correct spellings, though
apparenty skipped back a generation to Dad's English and Scottish
parents. Now as for the typos in my e-mails, I'll blame part of that on
a slow response of the text editor (I'll get ahead a few characters at
times) and an odd quirk of typing one letter when meaning another: I'll
type 'c' for 's' and vice versa semi-consistently but not due to not
knowing how to spell the word.
BM> ... I'm in a class by myself. Everyone else graduated.
EV> Good Tagline! Thanks!
'Welcome! ...Gee just think: when I do graduate I'll be Valedictorian!!
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