Well, we went through ways the military taught code practice. Here's how the military taught me to remember the color code including tolerance:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly for Gold Silver or Nothing Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gray White 5% 10% 20% I've remembered it for 43 years. And that's the clean one. Eric KE6US -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W3FPR - Don Wilhelm Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:11 PM To: Richard Thorne; elecraft Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Resistor Color Code Guide Rich, My 8 year old grandson grasped the resistor/capacitor color code in about 15 minutes of sorting resistors. Buy one of those resistor 'grab-bags' and sort them - when you are finished, you should have a good recall of the color code. 73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > I'm slowly but surely gathering the tools and such so I'll have every > thing necessary to build a K2. > > I remember in my earlier ham days that I had a little chart from > RadioShack. You dialed up the colors in the correct order and it gave > you the value of the resistor. It may come in handy during the build. > > I don't think RadioShack carries these any longer, per a quick phone > call I just made. Are there any other sources for something like this? > > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
