My shocking story dates back to November, 1960, the night of the
Kennedy-Nixon election.
I had stayed up to the wee hours listening to election returns on the radio.
In the meantime I decided to work on my transmitter, a homebrew pair of
807's, which I was attempting to modulate with a hi-fi am
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, David Knepper wrote:
Remember the Collins 32V-1. Exposed plate caps on the 807s' and 4D-32; but Art
Collins (his engineers) used an interlocking device when you lifted up the lid.
A relatively simple, inexpensive microswitch killed the high voltage.
At 03:20
Remember the Collins 32V-1. Exposed plate caps on the 807s' and 4D-32; but Art
Collins (his engineers) used an interlocking device when you lifted up the lid.
A relatively simple, inexpensive microswitch killed the high voltage.
Collins Radio forever.
David Knepper, W3ST/W3CRA
Editor of the
At 03:20 PM 1/19/2009, David Knepper wrote:
What I still wonder even today is how WRL/Leo Meyerson could make such death
traps and get away with it.
It's my understanding that Leo's designs, tho a bit eclectic, started
out OK. It was his Bean Counters that
messed 'em up.
I still have a Ga
My big shocker was in a lab doing some troubleshooting on a transmitter.
I had been making some voltage measurements and the negative lead to the
meter popped off the chassis, unnoticed, and fell to the floor. Since I
was following the "one hand in pocket" rule, everything seemed cool.
Well, it wa
Well said! I'm also of the belief that they create more laws to draw in more financial gratification and thus puts a persons back up against a wall.
-- Original message from "Jim Isbell, W5JAI" : -- > The rant is well deserved and well delivered. I am sick unto death o
The rant is well deserved and well delivered. I am sick unto death of
people that want to sue their way out of a mistake that they
themselves made through ignorance and stupidity. But the problem
seems to be that we have too many lawyers that need to make a living
so they create work for themselv
I've been shocked, knocked a across the room even, more times than I
care to talk about. Once I thought I was going to die and then afraid I
wouldn't.
Back a few years ago, I don't think people sued as much as they do
now. If some accident happened we didn't try to blame it
Had a Knight T-60 transmitter as a Novice. I had tapped the power supply for
some reason through the rear plug. When whatever that project was over,
rather than remove the wire, I cut them off.
Went to change coax and, as I leaned over and reached behind, I accidentally
keyed the transmitter as my
Several guys are claiming that I must have used Photoshop to put a
photo of a new, clean workbench behind the Galaxy 300. Not so - but I
did crop the picture so that the messes to the left and right were no
longer shown! -grin-
Steve WD8DAS
sbjohns...@aol.com
http://www.wd8das.net/
I dropped out of ham radio in the early 70's and spent several decades
designing and debugging systems with 1000-2000 chips powered by a 5v 200a
supply. No problem adding jumpers or scoping hot circuits (but keep your
wedding ring in your pocket!). When I got back into boatanchor radios I
reall
Hi Steve,
Nice looking rig, you did a great job. But, tell me, where did you
get the photo of the "neat-looking" workbench behind it? It sure
doesn't look like any of those tools have been used. :-) (It's not
a mess like mine anyway.)
73, John
At 10:31 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote:
>I think
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