I dropped out of ham radio in the early 70's and spent several decades designing and debugging systems with 1000-2000 chips powered by a 5v 200a supply. No problem adding jumpers or scoping hot circuits (but keep your wedding ring in your pocket!). When I got back into boatanchor radios I really had to retrain my brain and fingers. Fortunately, memories of grabbing B+ in a HB xmtr as a teenager had lingered in my neurons enough that I really *knew* to keep my hands off the wiring.
But the other poster was right on the money about it being a miracle any of us young hams made it through our early contacts with tube gear. cheers, Nick KD4CPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Crawford" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]>; "Jim Wilhite" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] A special day today >I see this fear of voltage and current prevalent among the "board-swapper" > type techs that have never worked on anything with more than 12 VDC. Jim > W5JO hit the nail on the head, there just isn't a lot of common sense > around > these days.When fooling with HV, put one hand in the pocket and be sure to > be awake/alert. > > Joe W4AAB ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
