Re: What list is this again?
I'm not deleting my posts to hide anything, I figure Google, MI5, CIA, NSA, ASPCA, JDL and Al Quida all have copies of everything I've publicly posted. I'm deleting to keep the group files neater and
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99260
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Re: aliexpress freq counters views
Which is one of the reasons why I won't order from them. I have ordered some stuff from Banggood, and one of the last things was a Baofeng radio, where the web page specifically stated that the AC
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99259
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Re: aliexpress freq counters views
And yet they give you eight digits? And claim to be usable up to 1200MHz? I think I'll pass...
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99258
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Re: What list is this again?
On Thursday 28 November 2024 04:12:16 am Kerim via groups.io wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 09:48 PM, wn4isx wrote:
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> > Since I suspect my writing style also irritates people, I've deleted
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99257
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Re: Clarification
Too damn many TLAs! :-)
It''s an assembly method. Period. The big advantage as far as I can see is that it allows much higher component density compared to through-hole parts, you can put stuff
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99256
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Re: DPDT switch for meter calibration
I've done a bit of work on my Simpson DVMs, not fun!
Okay...
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99255
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Re: Clarification
Please don't apologize!
A friend has a R390A that has an intermittent 'short'.
In addition to having both knees replaced this summer I have a damaged rotator cuff and I am not up to wrestling with a
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99254
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Re: aliexpress freq counters views
It's noteworthy that it is more than 2 months waiting for delivery of one of these.
Unless I misread.
Andy
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Andy
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#99253
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Re: Clarification
I work on old tube radios and when I see SMD I think of silver mica disease. ?
(SMD occurs in the silver coated mica wafer capacitors in the IF cans as the silver oxidizes and bleeds to the mica
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Nelson Johnsrud
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#99252
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Re: Clarification
I used to think that SMD is the only acronym for surface mount components.
It seems that most electronic elements are seen, since long ago, as devices more than as mere components.
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Kerim
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#99251
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Re: aliexpress freq counters views
I have one - they are not outstandingly accurate (mine read 30 Hz low at 10 MHz.
Replacing the crystal oscillator with a 0.5ppm TCXO made a big difference.? Being able to setup the IF to
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David Slipper
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#99250
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aliexpress freq counters views
hi all,i have just ordered one of these counters,are they any good for radio alignment lo and if stages
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paul larner
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#99249
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Re: What list is this again?
I personally like your style. You talk to others with human feelings and this is rare to happen in these days.
The fact is that a typical moderator is supposed (by...?!) to act like a humanoid AI
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Kerim
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#99248
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Re: Clarification
I almost always use (and more often than not see) *SMD*.? Been using that acronym for decades.
Andy
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Andy
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#99247
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Clarification
I used SMC, sort of old school term for surface mount components.
Here is a better description of various surface mount things...
https://www.opledtw.com/blog/what-is-smd-smt-sma-smc/
What is
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99246
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Re: Possible work bench tops
A friend uses this "garage sale table" as his electronic workbench.
http://www.aeroelectric.com/articles/Garage_Sale_Table.pdf
It is extremely stable with the suggest braces.
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99245
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Re: Possible work bench tops
My friend's daughter snagged one cut out, went out and bought a "piano hinge" and some 2" dowels with hinges and has made a fold against the wall work area for her bedroom. I can see this being a good
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99244
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DPDT switch for meter calibration
I've been working on a Simpson 460-3 DVM with analog sub-meter.
There are 2 primary scales, .200V and 2.0V, all the higher voltages are attenuated to one of those.
The zero and +/-2.0V was a breeze,
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99243
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Re: Possible work bench tops
I have thought about doing exactly that, particularly to mount small machine tools on, once I acquire some. One of these days...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting
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Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
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#99242
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Re: What list is this again?
Effective immediately I won't delete any messages regardless of my opinion on the adherence to Groups IO rules. I'll let whatever happens happen.
I think this was my only moderator/administrator
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wn4isx <wn4isx@...>
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#99241
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