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Post by bamber on Mar 28, 2019 10:06:47 GMT
Aaah !!! a member of the million miles per watt club ...... I was expected to provide world wide communication at any time with a measley 60 watt CW transmitter ...... My hats off to you, I know the frustration of trying to get through to a distant station when some b$%&$£d opens up near you with a few kilowatts. Respect! No mean feat with 60W. As for 'getting through' the big boys, I always found that the inevitable designed 'chirp' usually helped
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Post by phil70 on Mar 28, 2019 12:02:25 GMT
OK, OSCAR I got but as for the rest... WHOOoosh! again. Though good to read and glean a bit, as they say every day is a school day. (At least it is here at TB) Phil
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Post by carthorse on Mar 29, 2019 22:50:10 GMT
It wouldn't have needed to have been square to accept the shape of the block I ended up with Phil. 😀 What I really couldn't understand was why I was filing anything at all when I had signed up for an electronics apprenticeship 🤔 well if you were working on radar in the same era as me, half of that had more similarity to plumbing than electronics I think I have now thrown it out, but I used to have a quite thick textbook just on waveguide theory Just to get to the avionics stage of my apprenticeship I had to spend a very long year in a workshop cutting, filling and machining metal. Still 30 years later that years experience still comes in useful when working on cars and boats. It never has for fettling aircraft though, but neither has waveguide theory. I guessed / blagged that in every exam I ever took.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 30, 2019 7:22:05 GMT
well if you were working on radar in the same era as me, half of that had more similarity to plumbing than electronics I think I have now thrown it out, but I used to have a quite thick textbook just on waveguide theory , but neither has waveguide theory. I guessed / blagged that in every exam I ever took. I learned just enough bits of it to scrape me through ...... then promptly forgot it all It's like a hell of a lot I was taught in electronics ..... by the time I got out in the world of industry most of the stuff I had learned was obsolete
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Post by phil70 on Mar 30, 2019 7:55:39 GMT
, but neither has waveguide theory. I guessed / blagged that in every exam I ever took. I learned just enough bits of it to scrape me through ...... then promptly forgot it all It's like a hell of a lot I was taught in electronics ..... by the time I got out in the world of industry most of the stuff I had learned was obsolete Like flip flop logic Phil
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 8:03:58 GMT
I learned just enough bits of it to scrape me through ...... then promptly forgot it all It's like a hell of a lot I was taught in electronics ..... by the time I got out in the world of industry most of the stuff I had learned was obsolete Like flip flop logic Phil You didn’t work at Marconi (Stanmore) by any chance Phil? I knew a Phil who worked with microwave stuff and had the nick name ‘flip flop’....
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Post by mouse on Mar 30, 2019 8:37:53 GMT
My level of electronics is: if it doesn’t work, hit it, if it still doesn’t work, buy a new one. CB useful when cruising in company in East Angular. Naughty forties were so much better!
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Post by bamber on Mar 30, 2019 9:56:02 GMT
I learned just enough bits of it to scrape me through ...... then promptly forgot it all It's like a hell of a lot I was taught in electronics ..... by the time I got out in the world of industry most of the stuff I had learned was obsolete Like flip flop logic Phil Far too modern, going through circuits with a hundred or so Uniselectors was far more interesting 🤓
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Post by phil70 on Mar 30, 2019 10:51:21 GMT
You didn’t work at Marconi (Stanmore) by any chance Phil? I knew a Phil who worked with microwave stuff and had the nick name ‘flip flop’.... No, but I did live there, bought a house on Drummond Drive not far from the Leefe Robinson pub, my local was the 3 1/2 men, the 7 Balls. Phil
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 11:02:02 GMT
You didn’t work at Marconi (Stanmore) by any chance Phil? I knew a Phil who worked with microwave stuff and had the nick name ‘flip flop’.... No, but I did live there, bought a house on Drummond Drive not far from the Leif Robinson pub, my local was the 3 1/2 men, the 7 Balls. Phil That means you must be push then.
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Post by phil70 on Mar 30, 2019 13:51:42 GMT
No, but I did live there, bought a house on Drummond Drive not far from the Leif Robinson pub, my local was the 3 1/2 men, the 7 Balls. Phil That means you must be push then. Not really, but Roger Moore and Patti Boulay did live round the corner. Phil
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