[Elecraft] One of my stupid mistakes

2006-01-03 Thread HSHERRIFF
Ok, I had just graduated "electronics" trade school. You know, 20 months of intense training in everything from component identification to superhet receiver theory, to radar fundamentals. It was in 1970 just before I entered the military. I was visiting my parents home in Florida on a humid su

Re: [Elecraft] One of my stupid mistakes

2006-01-04 Thread Nick Waterman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My technical expertise said, "just move the HV lead > away from the chassis where it is arcing". So, that is what I started > to do, with the set on, so I could monitor my efforts. Naturally, the > screwdriver conducted the 15+ thousand volts to ME. The next thing I >