On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:

> 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...).

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.

https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp

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.

He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs were
cutting edge technology.

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:27:18 -0500, DFS wrote:

> Islam: A backward religion for a backward country populated by loser
> male chimps who oppress their women.

Actually it's just another Christian heresy for those that couldn't wrap
their minds around the doctrine of a Trinity.

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/heresy-of-mohammed-10817

Writing in 1938 Belloc was correct to predict it was going to become a
problem again.

You can't really blame Mohammed. Many Christians, asked to explain the
Trinity in their own words, will come up with one of the many heresies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_heresies

On 1/14/25 6:15 PM, Joel wrote:
> CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2025-01-14 17:06, Joel wrote:
>>> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>>>> On 1/14/2025 4:09 PM, SandChimp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You break the [Islamic] law, you pay for it.
>>>>
>>>> Is it Islamic law that a woman who refuses to marry the hairy primate
>>>> her family chose for her should be killed by her barbaric hairy primate
>>>> brother Mehram?
>>>>
>>>> Islam: A backward religion for a backward country populated by loser
>>>> male chimps who oppress their women.
>>>
>>> Cracker.
>>
>> Instead of responding in the way your Antifa friends expect because
>> you're looking to gain their approval, how about you actually read the
>> Koran and learn how they intend to treat non-Muslims?
>>
>> Read Surah 65:4 where we find out how Muslims are supposed to divorce
>> those wives they have who haven't yet menstruated.
>>
>> Quran 9:29 where anyone who isn't a Muslim is to be taxed heavily.
>>
>> Quran 7:159 who names the Jews as being the people who should be treated
>> like dogs and killed in 7:176.
>>
>> Anyways, I already know that you won't back down and will defend the
>> very "faith" that intends to kill you, but I thought you should know.
>>
>> Muslims are the worst liars I have ever met. They are like hairy dindu
>> nuffins.
>
>
> DFS changed the quote line to call Physfitfreak "SandChimp".

And considering how the sand chimp feels about us Whites and Christians,
I can think of much worse insults I would use on the brain-damaged
barbarian.

--
CrudeSausage
Gab: @CrudeSausage
Unapologetic paleoconservative

On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:

> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>> 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...).
>
> 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.
>
> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>
> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>
> 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.
>
> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
> were cutting edge technology.

I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew
a cap.

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.

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.

https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm

As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot
with my Radioman rating in the CG.

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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OS: Linux 6.13.0-rc7 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
"Is it ok to use my AM radio after NOON?"

vallor wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
> <luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>
>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>
>>> 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...).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>
>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>> were cutting edge technology.
>
> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew
> a cap.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>
> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot
> with my Radioman rating in the CG.
>
> 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.
>
why didn't you try transmitting

On 1/14/25 7:02 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:27:18 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> Islam: A backward religion for a backward country populated by loser
>> male chimps who oppress their women.
>
> Actually it's just another Christian heresy for those that couldn't wrap
> their minds around the doctrine of a Trinity.
>
> https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/heresy-of-mohammed-10817
>
> Writing in 1938 Belloc was correct to predict it was going to become a
> problem again.
>
> You can't really blame Mohammed. Many Christians, asked to explain the
> Trinity in their own words, will come up with one of the many heresies.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_heresies
>

Tell "DFS" his fingering himself while his other hand is striking keys
can be seen by my dick through his two-liner.

On 2025-01-15, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
><luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>
>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>
>>> 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...).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>
>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>> were cutting edge technology.
>
> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew
> a cap.
>
> 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.

We had a BW TV which would toast a tube every time we came back from spending
summer vacation at our country house. It was very strange.
I would also complain about the high frequency noise from the flyback transformer.
Smack the side of the TV and it went away.

> 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.

My dad and his best friend ran a TV repair biz on the side.
As it turns out he was a ham and had a Hallicrafters SX-100.
I used to listen to radio Moscow propaganda all the time.
I eventually got my novice license and then general.
Today I'm an amateur extra.

> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>
> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot
> with my Radioman rating in the CG.
>
> 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.
>
It's all about the antenna and thinking outside the box makes the difference.
Experiment.

--
pothead

"Give a man a fish and you turn him into a Democrat for life"
"Teach a man to fish and he might become a self-sufficient conservative Republican"
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up,"
--- Barack H. Obama

On 1/14/25 7:02 PM, rbowman wrote:
> Many Christians, asked to explain the
> Trinity in their own words, will come up with one of the many heresies.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_heresies
>

What a pile of pure Penis X bullshit.

Isaac Newton got commissioned by Church to look into this Penisity crap.
He took his time and made a thorough research and found the culprit
lunatic who first started it. Some lunatic outcast in the middle of some
desert. He promptly reported his results to that Church (the document
exists today, it's in the English language), concluding that, "It was
just a pile of nonsense that this guy for the first time began expounding."

Or something to that effect.

A suggestion. Since the two on either sides are just balls and the
middle one a Penis, why not calling the whole thing Penisity to stay to
the point?

Is there another Mormon in this forum left? I feel like kicking some
Mormon ass. Does "DFS" have Mormonitis?

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:23:32 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<mpadnRRAVuzVkxr6nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@giganews.com>:

> vallor wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
>> <luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>
>>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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...).
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>>
>>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>>> were cutting edge technology.
>>
>> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew a cap.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>>
>> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
>> Radioman rating in the CG.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 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.

--
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OS: Linux 6.12.9 Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 258G
"We give nothing as willingly as our advice."

vallor wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:23:32 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
> <mpadnRRAVuzVkxr6nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>
>> vallor wrote:
>>> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
>>> <luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>
>>>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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...).
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>>>
>>>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>>>> were cutting edge technology.
>>>
>>> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew a cap.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>>>
>>> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
>>> Radioman rating in the CG.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:39:51 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<e4ydnfbaOouasxr6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>:

> vallor wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:23:32 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>> <mpadnRRAVuzVkxr6nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>>
>>> vallor wrote:
>>>> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
>>>> <luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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...).
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>>>>> were cutting edge technology.
>>>>
>>>> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew a
>>>> cap.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>>>>
>>>> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
>>>> Radioman rating in the CG.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> 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

'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
radio a really good ground.

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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:

>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.

But Larry's tougher than you, we're to believe, heh. Larry, you are a
lying braggart even as you'd be admitting crimes in posts and videos.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 15 Jan 2025 01:20:21 GMT, vallor wrote:

> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
> Radioman rating in the CG.
>
> 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.

I don't remember the brand but I had a hand-me-down radio from the era
when radios were large, decorative pieces of furniture. It had band
switches and a complex semi-circular dial plus the magic eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube

We had a big old elm tree in the backyard that was convenient, and long as
I didn't foul my mother's clotheslines.

We also had a TV early in the game. Fortunately there was a TV station to
go with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRGB

I sort of miss those home-grown shows like the Freddie Freihofer Show.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/catch-me-now/3500325341

For that matter, I miss Freihofer's in general. They made excellent
chocolate chip cookies and hot cross buns during Lent.

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:41:43 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

> My dad and his best friend ran a TV repair biz on the side. As it turns
> out he was a ham and had a Hallicrafters SX-100.
> I used to listen to radio Moscow propaganda all the time.
> I eventually got my novice license and then general.
> Today I'm an amateur extra.

I'm an advanced. They don't make them like that anymore but I'm holding on
to it. Back in the day I could barely manage the code for advanced and
extra wasn't going to happen. Besides the exam was more administrative
details than tech.

On 15 Jan 2025 02:37:14 GMT, vallor wrote:

> Who says I didn't? But not on HF -- unless you count 27.125 MHz.

I've got one and only one QSL card. I'd thrown a transmitter together from
scrap I found in the desert including salvaged wire from an old wiper
motor and 12 gauge shotgun shells for coil forms, glass and aluminum foil
caps. I think the closest I came to real components was a FET from
RatShack. I was in Why, AZ and managed to hook up with a ham in Vegas. He
said I was coming in 5 by 5 but was drifting. I thought to myself 'if only
you could see the pile of junk I'm using for a transmitter.'

On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:

>
> He also erred, confusing the Amperage
>

I don't err and *you* the one who is fucking confused.

Idiot.

You couldn't, and you didn't, even make it past college
level EE101.

--
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:40:26 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
<pan$37378$4b9c05be$415f5638$1519dcf3@linux.rocks>:

> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>>
>> He also erred, confusing the Amperage
>>
>
> I don't err

...out of one side of your mouth, and out of the other:

in <181aa2e783f6507c$101945$292657$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:

"Oops. I erred." -Feeb

Where did you learn to lie like that -- at the "Supermax"?

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"

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On 1/14/25 5:34 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:53:36 -0500, -hh wrote:
>> On 1/14/25 1:35 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:43:15 -0500, -hh wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But if this alleged fuze is for the microphone, then where is it?
>>>>
>>>> FYI, claiming it is "hidden" doesn't fly because that means that you
>>>> chose to make it unserviceable,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Oops. I erred. There is no fuse on this unit.
>>
>> QED.
>
> He also erred, confusing the Amperage from a 120V
> circuit for that for a 5V circuit -- then referred to
> it as "EE", when it was basic electronics.

Yup, Feeb failed 3rd grade math.

> I was lucky enough to grow up with a Dad who was extremely
> savvy to electronics, who learned the ropes from _his_ dad (as
> well as being a Fire Control Technician in the Navy, and having
> a career with electronics in DCPA/FEMA, and, and...).

Never really thought about that much, even though I learned later that
Dad was a 'radioman' (Infantry Communications Sgt). But putting that
together now, it makes sense that I'd sometimes tag along with him to
the local hardware store with some TV vacuum tubes to test to find which
one(s) need to be replaced to get the TV running again. I can also
recall chastising him when he was helping with some wiring on my first
house, where he hadn't thrown the breaker before starting work - his
comment was "110 only tickles, but 220 throws you across the room". I
learned after my first 'tickle' to cut off the power (if one can) on
household stuff, plus after working in the HP lab that there's a lot of
hazards in the field...one of my earlier projects was to clear space in
the lab for my work, which involved safely disposing of several tons of
capacitors left over from another project ... think it ended up being
around 14 pallets worth ... and thank God I found someone who actually
wanted them, so it was a transfer instead of disposal ... I suspect a
lot of them were probably filled with PCP based oils.

> 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...).

No idea, but IMO probably unlikely. A neighbor teaches in the local
High School, so I'll ask if they happen to know. But I'd suspect that
if it has survived at all, it was probably relegated to the Vocational
school 20-30 years ago.

-hh

vallor wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:39:51 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
> <e4ydnfbaOouasxr6nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@giganews.com>:
>
>> vallor wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:23:32 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> <mpadnRRAVuzVkxr6nZ2dnZfqnPEAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>>>
>>>> vallor wrote:
>>>>> On 15 Jan 2025 00:39:16 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
>>>>> <luoedkF6gdtU1@mid.individual.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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...).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs
>>>>>> were cutting edge technology.
>>>>>
>>>>> I remember watching our old black & white console while it blew a
>>>>> cap.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://antiqueradio.org/halli08.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> As an avid SWL, the HF propagation experience helped a lot with my
>>>>> Radioman rating in the CG.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>> 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
>
> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
> radio a really good ground.
>
where i live what you described is a dipole ,
i had a half wave 250 feet in the air

On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:

>>>
>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole
>
> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
> radio a really good ground.
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a dunce!

EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.

And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
just to save your sorry ass.

EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.

Now shut the fuck up.

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Farley Flud wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>
>>>>
>>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole
>>
>> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
>> radio a really good ground.
>>
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a dunce!
>
> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>
> And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
> just to save your sorry ass.
>
> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>
> Now shut the fuck up.
>
>
>
>
>
i was getting there

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:55:42 -0500, -hh wrote:

>
> Yup, Feeb failed 3rd grade math.
>

You never even made it to the third grade.

But you were eventually graduated for social reasons,
i.e. they didn't want to seat an 18 year old in the same
class with 8 year olds.

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On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:21:25 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<F4adnQYtKfjLKxr6nZ2dnZfqnPsAAAAA@giganews.com>:

> Farley Flud wrote:
>> On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole
>>>
>>> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
>>> radio a really good ground.
>>>
>>
>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a dunce!
>>
>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>>
>> And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
>> just to save your sorry ass.
>>
>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>>
>> Now shut the fuck up.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> i was getting there

So you're both wrong. Dipoles are tapped in the middle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_wire_antenna

Sigmonster for the Feeb:

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vallor wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:21:25 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
> <F4adnQYtKfjLKxr6nZ2dnZfqnPsAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>
>> Farley Flud wrote:
>>> On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole
>>>>
>>>> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the
>>>> radio a really good ground.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a dunce!
>>>
>>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>>>
>>> And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
>>> just to save your sorry ass.
>>>
>>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>>>
>>> Now shut the fuck up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> i was getting there
>
> So you're both wrong. Dipoles are tapped in the middle.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_wire_antenna
>
> Sigmonster for the Feeb:
>
they're tapped where ever they can be ,
that's the whole idea for getting around ,
corners and bends

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:06:07 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
<4-udnW4MKdqYXBr6nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com>:

> vallor wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:21:25 -0700, % <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
>> <F4adnQYtKfjLKxr6nZ2dnZfqnPsAAAAA@giganews.com>:
>>
>>> Farley Flud wrote:
>>>> On 15 Jan 2025 03:46:47 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> ok well you didn't mention that and it sounded like a great dipole
>>>>>
>>>>> 'twasn't a dipole, 'twas a long wire, and I gave the radio a really
>>>>> good ground.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a dunce!
>>>>
>>>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>>>>
>>>> And don't start scrambling for stupid technical "loopholes"
>>>> just to save your sorry ass.
>>>>
>>>> EVERY antenna is a fucking dipole.
>>>>
>>>> Now shut the fuck up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> i was getting there
>>
>> So you're both wrong. Dipoles are tapped in the middle.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_wire_antenna
>>
>> Sigmonster for the Feeb:
>>
> they're tapped where ever they can be , that's the whole idea for
> getting around ,
> corners and bends

Now you're making sophomoric semantics arguments.

Is this a dipole?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_antenna

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