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[RST Engineering (jw)]

For a lifetime. Mine, not yours.

Jim



"Greysky" <greyskynospam@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:ax0Hd.11617$wZ2.8621@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...

Is the site going to stay up for a while, or is the end of feb. the limit?

 

[Steve Rush]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:37:19 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that RST Engineering (jw)
jim@rstengineering.com> wrote (in <10uo3di3o5smr58@corp.supernews.com&gt
about '(slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course', on Mon, 17 Jan 2005:

General has a 5wpm code exam and a moderate theory and regulations exam.
It permits almost all operation on any amateur radio band, with little
tiny slices here and there reserved for the ...

You still have a 'coarse mode' requirement? In this digital age?

Hand-keyed CW will get through conditions that defeat anything else. It's
so slow that you can use a very narrow filter, and once the receiving
operator learns the idiosyncrasies of the sender's "fist", the
cocktail-party effect kicks in. In a pinch, you can send with anything
that generates RF; I don't know whether anyone has actually sent an SOS
with an arc welder, but it would work.

 

[Lord Garth]

Has anybody said that the 'no code' technician license has been available
for close to 15 years now?
I you opt to take the code portion, all you must do is listen to a QSO.
Questions are then asked
to prove that you copied the communication.

The hardest thing I found on the test was reading the superscripts on the
poor quality copies the
VE's handed out. I had enough time to check every answer three times.

 

[Tim Williams]

"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:S$ThJPB2HN7BFwX3@jmwa.demon.co.uk...

My experience is that most arc
welder users want to send 'War and Peace' unabridged. -(

Wouldn't be me though...nope...not at all....certainly not once I build and
install the HF start unit...yup...

That should be splatterific, no? ;-)

Tim

--
"I've got more trophies than Wayne Gretsky and the Pope combined!"
- Homer Simpson
Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Rich Grise" <richgrise@example.net> wrote in message
newsan.2005.01.18.07.30.58.363141@example.net...
[snip]

Hey, Rich. You live in Whittier? Have the rains filled up Whittier
Narrows and turned it and the recreation area into a giant mudflat?


I do live in Whittier, but I don't get out much; in fact this is the
first
I've heard of "The Whitter Narrows" - I don't even know where it is.

Hard to miss, since it's as big as the whole city. Here's a map. The
green area at the top is the recreation area, golf course, lakes, etc.
Roughly the 60 Fwy and Rosemead. The bottom or south end of the green
is the big dam.
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT&csz=whittier+junction%
2C+calif&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=

I was kind of surprised the other day when I saw that fault map -
there's a "Whittier Fault", and it appears from the map that I'm
sitting
right on top of it. On a slab, in an RV, so It's not that big of a
deal, I
guess. Unless the Earth opens up and swallows me whole. ;-)

Everyone in L.A. lives on a fault.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Richard]

Allan Adler wrote:

Let me try to state the problem again a little more simply. I have an
AC adaptor from 120VAC to 12VDC. It has two prongs. The manual says
it has to be properly grounded using a 2-prong to 3-prong adaptor.

That sounds like "boilerplate", sometimes inappropriate, lawyer-driven,
statements that are stuck on all products. It doesn't seem to have any
applicabilty to your device. If you are a worrier just ground the damn
machine and get on with it.
Richard

 

[Allan Adler]

"Richard" <beezoboar@hotmail.com> writes:

That sounds like "boilerplate", sometimes inappropriate, lawyer-driven,
statements that are stuck on all products. It doesn't seem to have any
applicabilty to your device.

That was also my impression. Thanks for confirming it.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.

 

[Tom MacIntyre]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:56:48 -0800, "RST Engineering \(jw\)"
<jim@rstengineering.com> wrote:

That's not one of the groups that I subscribe to. If you subscribe, would
you mind forwarding it for me?

Thanks,

Jim

I took care of this for you...

Tom

With the crossbreeding of amateur (ham) radio operators and electronics
professionals being
something on the order of 25%, this is only slightly OT.



Thanks for posting this. Also, you might want to post it to
sci.electronics.basics.

 

[John Ferrell]

There have been a couple of times that I may have worked one on 40....

de W8CCW

I don't know whether anyone has actually sent an SOS

with an arc welder, but it would work.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 20:02:21 -0800, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark
Remover" wrote:

At least you'd be able to see it go through a cycle or two before the
coffee gets cold. ;-)

Good Luck!
Rich

Well, I don't drink coffee. But I took their advice and put a fixed
2.5V voltage source with a 200 ohm pot across it, and then connected the
JFET's source to the wiper. This allowed me to adjust the gate bias to
a fixed and somewhat exact voltage. Now I can set it to about 1.58VDC,
and it will sustain oscillations, and has been doing so all week long.

But it's kind og a waste to have to go to all that trouble to get the
FET to the right bias point. I'll have to again try to get it to
oscillate with the three diodes and resistor in series with the source.
Now that I know where the right bias point is. I'll have to play around
some more.

This is that stuff that them edjamacaited people talk about - designing
out part variations, or some such. ;-)

Hey, Rich. You live in Whittier? Have the rains filled up Whittier
Narrows and turned it and the recreation area into a giant mudflat?

I do live in Whittier, but I don't get out much; in fact this is the first
I've heard of "The Whitter Narrows" - I don't even know where it is.

I was kind of surprised the other day when I saw that fault map -
there's a "Whittier Fault", and it appears from the map that I'm sitting
right on top of it. On a slab, in an RV, so It's not that big of a deal, I
guess. Unless the Earth opens up and swallows me whole. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[me]

"Richard" <beezoboar@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1106141298.145970.263580
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

Allan Adler wrote:
Let me try to state the problem again a little more simply. I have an
AC adaptor from 120VAC to 12VDC. It has two prongs. The manual says
it has to be properly grounded using a 2-prong to 3-prong adaptor.

That sounds like "boilerplate", sometimes inappropriate, lawyer-driven,
statements that are stuck on all products. It doesn't seem to have any
applicabilty to your device. If you are a worrier just ground the damn
machine and get on with it.
Richard

what were you doing reading the manual????

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Steve Rush <steverush1
@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net> wrote (in <pan.2005.01.18.08.04.22.918239@SPAM_ME_
NOT.cox.net&gt about '(slightly OT) Free Ham Radio Course', on Tue, 18
Jan 2005:

Hand-keyed CW will get through conditions that defeat anything else.
It's so slow that you can use a very narrow filter, and once the
receiving operator learns the idiosyncrasies of the sender's "fist", the
cocktail-party effect kicks in.

I agree about the robustness of CW; it just seems odd now that most hams
use commercial equipment to insist on them learning a communication
protocol that they will never use.

Many years ago, I suggested that since humans can easily produce what
sounds like MCW Morse with no prosthetic at all, it should be used for
direct communication with computers. That would mean everyone leaning
Morse, and many would get quite fast!

In a pinch, you can send with anything
that generates RF; I don't know whether anyone has actually sent an SOS
with an arc welder, but it would work.

Happens a lot in thriller novels. (;-) My experience is that most arc
welder users want to send 'War and Peace' unabridged. -(
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Mike]

Sometimes it's who you know rather than what you know. Check out some
connections through family, friends, co-workers...

Mike

"Minus3db" <minus3db@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:96a21fd8.0501191856.48041d00@posting.google.com...

Hello,

I'm a fairly recent graduate of EE, and I also have an electronics
tech. diploma under my belt. I'm *desperate* to find work in the
electronics industry, especially something in analog design, embedded
control, or RF engineering. I'm living in Toronto, Canada.

I'm having some real difficulty in finding a junior position - i.e.,
one that doesn't require 5-10 years of experience, or a Masters
degree. It's the old 'can't get the job without experience, can't get
the experience without a job' story. :-(
I've had lots of nice comments about my resume / cover letters, but
'we've hired someone else with more experience than you' is starting
to get old.
Going back to school is not an option for me, due to family
commitments.

Right now I'm working as a consultant for construction projects -
mostly low voltage distribution. Lots of drafting and paperwork, and
absolutely no exposure to electronics whatsoever, but it's paying the
bills for now. It's also driving me mad because I know exactly what
industry I want to work in, I just can't seem to get hired.

If anyone out there could offer some advice in finding a junior
position in the electronics industry, I'd be grateful. Right now, I'm
so disheartened that I'd even appreciate hearing from others in a
similar situation, just so I know that I'm not alone.

Thanks in advance,
minus3db@hotmail.com

 

Allan Adler wrote:

What does one need the 3-prong adaptor for?
A 2-prong plug will plug into a 3-prong hole ...

Better yet, next time you're in Home Depot or wherever, see if such an
adapter is even available! There is no reason for anyone to even make
such a thing.

Richard is right, it sounds like some legal-driven requirement. If it
really required grounding, they would need to make it with a grounding
prong.

 

[Mark Jones]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:20:21 +0000, dd <dd@ddwyer.demon.co.uk
wrote:


In message <2lodu0ptc6g0lsk90kah4ljtfb2nvd10mh@4ax.com>, Jim
Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> writes

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:59:44 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

[snip]

According to Mr Omega, it's down to 46F outside my office
window. The Extech IR claims 47, a remarkable correlation.
Still brutally cold.

John

For us westerners ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Much is being made of global dimming temporary compensating the
greenhouse effect. Measured Water evaporation rate (a standard
test carried out for 100? Years) has dropped steadily and
globally due to dimming over 50 years When we run out of dimming
warming speeds up. Is this discussed anywhere?


And where did this hare-brained idea originate?

...Jim Thompson

Careful, I've seen what might be 'bots' which post semi-intelligent
replies to conversations. I'm not talking about the garbage spam that
we all know like:

"3247n23.4.634&62##364 Red is wine flavor to color now? Debbie carat
eats fried grease and dies. Do you know DVD? PC sale not today free
purchase yeah! Tennis sports Debbie likes. Do you eat peas?"

Either that or maybe it's an AI that takes words from an existing
thread and rearranges them into a new post that mimics the topic. In
either case, it's either a person with poor english skills, or a
really intelligent AI.

I'm hoping it's the former, rather than latter.


-- "Perhaps it isn't that people are intentionally redefining
standards, just that our logic is changing faster than our
technology... or vice-versa." MCJ 20050109

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:32:38 -0600, "jason" <jpop@carrollsweb.com>
wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in
message news:hvi0v09fs91fp0v2ngq9iqfu851c21j904@4ax.com...
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:39:08 -0600, "jason" <jpop@carrollsweb.com
wrote:

Bush has the brain of a retarded clam.

He has a BS from Yale and a Masters from Harvard. He got better
grades than Kerry, and wasn't expelled for cheating like Teddy
Kennedy.

Where did you go to school?

The implication being that what school you went to correlates to how
intelligent you are, and further that if you went to a "better" school than
someone else, then you must be smarter than them.
I don't accept that. I am old enough and have been around enough to know
what an Ivy league education can be for someone who is wealthy and
connected. Hell, even summa cum laudes get off easy if they choose the right
classes.

Therefore, it is irrelevant where I went to school. If I tell you an Ivy
league school, what does that prove? If I tell you a state school, then you
will just use that as an example of how much dumber I must be than George.
If I did not go to college at all, well, then, you won your argument, right?

I do not believe that Bush got better grades than Kerry. Show me the proof.

Here is some interesting reading:

http://s88172659.onlinehome.us/bushprofessor.htm

http://www.thebatt.com/news/2004/05/26/News/Same-School.Different.Personalities.Defined.Candidates.Since.Yale-683302.shtml

I stopped reading when I came to "Air America". White trash leftist
propaganda... right at Michael Moore's sub-mentality level.

I didn't go to an Ivy League school, I graduated from MIT, about the
same time dear old high-calorie-ass-fart Teddy was kicked out of
Harvard, wanna fight?

So far you have exhibited no credentials sufficient to warrant any
further reading of your diatribes.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:32:38 -0600, "jason" <jpop@carrollsweb.com>
wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in
message news:hvi0v09fs91fp0v2ngq9iqfu851c21j904@4ax.com...
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:39:08 -0600, "jason" <jpop@carrollsweb.com
wrote:

Bush has the brain of a retarded clam.

He has a BS from Yale and a Masters from Harvard. He got better
grades than Kerry, and wasn't expelled for cheating like Teddy
Kennedy.

Where did you go to school?

The implication being that what school you went to correlates to how
intelligent you are, and further that if you went to a "better" school than
someone else, then you must be smarter than them.
I don't accept that. I am old enough and have been around enough to know
what an Ivy league education can be for someone who is wealthy and
connected. Hell, even summa cum laudes get off easy if they choose the right
classes.

No summa cum laude gets off easy!

Therefore, it is irrelevant where I went to school. If I tell you an Ivy
league school, what does that prove? If I tell you a state school, then you
will just use that as an example of how much dumber I must be than George.
If I did not go to college at all, well, then, you won your argument, right?

Harvard does not grant Masters degrees to clams.

I do not believe that Bush got better grades than Kerry. Show me the proof.

Well, for one, he's President and Kerry isn't.

Actually, Kerry's college grades aren't known. Slate and some other
sources rate W's IQ a bit above Kerry's, based on what test material
is publically available. But W certainly isn't stupid. You call him
stupid because you disagree with him.

John

 

[keith]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:46:05 -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:

And for those of you who are still in school? Get an internship if at
all possible, or even a job as a stock clerk in your target industry.
Meet as many people as possible, keep track of them if they go someplace
else, and make sure folks know what you want to do when you get out.
Even as a stock clerk you can show drive and competence, which is a plus
when they interview you as well as a bunch of total unknowns.

Absolutely! I thik all of the "newbs" we've hired in the past ten years
have been interns through school. Even in bad times we hired them after
graduation. Once you're in, you're in. "IN" is the issue.

--
Keith

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <22p0v014iurg4i51d90o6aptvk7la26ilc@
4ax.com&gt about 'OT: Red States to Secede', on Thu, 20 Jan 2005:

He's senile. Most ineffective Pope EVER!

Popes are always against war - it goes with the job in the same way as
they tend to be against sin. But this Pope hasn't been ineffective; he's
pronounced, often, very conservative dogma that I thought you would
support.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Bob Stephens]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:26:57 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

No summa cum laude gets off easy!

I concur. They're too uptight. You might try getting her drunk.