Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
Many times! Only 1,000 vdc or so on there and enough RF to create a burn
that hurt like @[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a month if it found bare skin!
...
Yes, but the arc was very
I've been racking my brain to see if I've done anything stupid.
Well, there is that time I heated the sand of an ant hill with a
magnifying glass. After 5 minutes nothing happened so I touched it see
if it was hot. Believe me it WAS!
I tried to make a watch demagnetizer by winding about 5
How about landing long on a short runway? 6000 lbs of metal and fuel
screaming down the last half of the runway at 100+ MPH on top of a few
square inches of burning rubber, then melting rims; off the end and into the
dirt. Airport closed briefly. Took off two days later with a lighter wallet
and
, Keith
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 3:04 PM
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Stupid, stupid, stupid - OT
I've been racking my brain to see if I've done anything stupid.
Well, there is that time I heated the sand of an ant hill with a magnifying
glass. After 5 minutes nothing
Well, I must humbly submit my most recent gaff. It's nothing like landing
long on a short runway (yikes!), but it relates to my inquiry on
troubleshooting my JPS NIR-12.
For several days now, Don W3FPR has been trying to help me figure out why
power was not being applied to this unit. It was
Darwin, Keith wrote:
Worst of all was the time I came in from playing outside and found my 25
watt soldering iron on my bed. The iron was on and the bedspread was
burned / melted under the iron. I had apparently left it plugged in
when I went outside hours earlier.
Soldering irons! That
In my younger years I developed the bad habit of scratching an itch with
whatever tool I had in my hand at the time.
Yep, you guessed it. One day I absent-mindedly scratched my head with a
hot soldering iron. I had a patch of gray hair on the side of my head
for years until all my hair
Jim W4BQP wrote:
Anyone remember drawing an arc off the plate cap of a transmitter tube
with a wooden lead pencil?
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Many times! Only 1,000 vdc or so on there and enough RF to create a burn
that hurt like @[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a month if it found bare skin!
] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:40 PM
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Stupid, stupid, stupid - OT
Jim W4BQP wrote:
Anyone remember drawing an arc off the plate cap of a transmitter tube with
a wooden lead pencil
EricJ wrote:
At K2USA we had a BC-610 in the main studio (1964). It stood a little over
desk high and was truly the Mother of all Boatanchors. To tune it, you had
to lift a small hatch in the top surface and rotate a link coupling. But, of
course, you had to switch off the B+ first. If you
in high school I worked for the local tv shop... helping in the
store and doing alot of roof antenna work, inside the hot attics
also,.,,, so I had a lot of end of spool runs of 300 ohm
twinline... So I used it for my s-38 antenna,,,and my telephone
line my intercom in the neighborhood
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