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Re: FedEx invoice for import to UK


 

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Hans (G0UPL),
{ "almost makes me wanna start soldering those wire sculptures again"}? You talk about re-entering your "rolling ball sculpture" phase. That is extremely important to you as a small business owner. Cherish that memory. Once you retire, then you can do something about that re-entrance. I bring this up because a huge percentage of your customers are in their "ham radio phase". If you can relate to their "ham radio phase", then you can form a REAL relationship with your customers. I see that happening from my perspective.

Speaking of phases, some of those are short lived. Take a look at the clock on my website? Most of the internet clocks click. Each of the hands "jump" to the next increment. The hands on the clock on my website do not click. They smoothly rotate around the clock face. This is most evident with the second hand, but all hands rotate smoothly. I call this my "clock phase" because my website was not published until the clock was finished.

Sorry Hans, your comment on "rolling ball sculpture" phase led me off track for a moment. Back on now.
73, Billy


From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Hans Summers via groups.io <hans.summers@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 10:50
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [QRPLabs] FedEx invoice for import to UK
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Hi Joe
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Wow, that IS unreasonably cool and awesome! Congratulations. I read the "History" page too. Very nice.?

I had a "rolling ball sculpture" phase around my mid-teens, which got started in a 1985-or-so trip to Netherlands, one of my first trips outside of UK; where they had a big rolling ball sculpture on the top floor of the Evoluon museum in?Eindhoven. I stood awestruck for hours watching it. So when I got back to the UK I started my rolling ball phase.?

I used to go past building sites and they'd have a pile of discarded wire?offsets in the skip outside from the electrical?wiring. It was usually solid-core stuff and the conducting wires typically 1 to 1.5mm diameter. So you could strip off the insulation then use this stuff to build tracks for the rolling ball sculpture, by soldering all the wire together. Of course I could not afford steel balls but 1-inch glass marbles from the toy shops worked fine.?

I had a lot of fun with different tricks; and also designed a rolling ball XOR-gate then built a couple of them and some other "gates" into a 1-bit binary full adder. Believe it or not I went on to design a rolling-ball 8-bit CPU, and with RAM, punched card reader, output display indicators... of course I never built anything beyond the 1-bit full adder.?

Your website Joe, almost makes me wanna start soldering those wire sculptures again, build me a clock or something... but that could be the end of any firmware developments for a long time so better help me resist temptation.?

> Hans has no place in this problem, he is also a victim; but a victim with no say on either side.

Billy is completely correct of course, but every cloud has a silver lining, in this case pseudo-personified by Joe's awesome clock and the momentary trip down memory lane.?

73 Hans G0UPL


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