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Re: Kilowatts

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Kilowatts
Date	2025-01-15 03:46 +0000
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:39:51 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<e4ydnfbaOouasxr6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>:

> vallor wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:23:32 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>> <mpadnRRAVuzVkxr6nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>> 
>>> vallor wrote:
>>>> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
>>>> <luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sidenote: Do they still teach electronics with discrete components
>>>>>> in High School?  I hope so...I learned it growing up, but having a
>>>>>> structured course with theory helped with my "STEM" career (which
>>>>>> wasn't called that back then...).
>>>>>
>>>>> My high school didn't have an electronics course. Had they, given
>>>>> the lag between high school courses and the rest of the world, the
>>>>> discretes would have been 6AU6s pentode and six dot mica capacitors.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't know what the image is your education was limited. I
>>>>> had an advantage. My uncle owned a radio and TV store where the
>>>>> 'store' part was small compared to the back room with units waiting
>>>>> repair. 'In those days when the TV repairman, who made house calls,
>>>>> pronounced 'it has to go back to the shop' it was like your doctor
>>>>> telling you that you should get your affairs in order.
>>>>>
>>>>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>>>>> were cutting edge technology.
>>>>
>>>> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew a
>>>> cap.
>>>>
>>>> It was an extended affair, lasting maybe a minute -- the tv was
>>>> making a keening noise as the picture bent inward on one side.  Then
>>>> "pop!" and the picture went away.
>>>>
>>>> We never had tv repairmen -- Dad always fixed it.  He also fixed my
>>>> Hallicrafters S-38 at his shop while I watched, getting rid of the
>>>> 60Hz hum and adding a standard headphone jack.
>>>>
>>>> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>>>>
>>>> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
>>>> Radioman rating in the CG.
>>>>
>>>> Could also hear quite a bit about what was going on in the world,
>>>> thanks to having a very, very long longwire antenna.  Building that
>>>> was how Dad taught me to differentiate between physical connections
>>>> and electrical connections.  Made from zip-cord, it went out the
>>>> window, up a tree, then out to a pole at one corner of the yard, then
>>>> across to another pole at the other end of the yard.  Great for DX
>>>> listening.
>>>>
>>> why didn't you try transmitting
>> 
>> Who says I didn't?  But not on HF -- unless you count 27.125 MHz.
>> 
>> I did get my tech ham license while in the CG, which was handy because
>> we started doing MARS on the ship, and I ended up as chief operator. 
>> Sometimes after the phone patches were done, I'd talk to the shoreside
>> ham volunteer in whose debt we all were, who had questions about our
>> gear.
>> We had some pretty swizzy mini-loop antennas that they wanted to know
>> about.
>> 
> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole

'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
radio a really good ground.

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