Re: Kilowatts

vallor wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:23:32 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
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vallor wrote:

On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
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On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
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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...).

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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.
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https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
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https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
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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.
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He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
were cutting edge technology.

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I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew a cap.
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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.
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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.
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https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
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As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
Radioman rating in the CG.
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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.
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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