Yes, I guess it was. I have been in the military business since 1967, and, certainly seen my share. Besides all of the screw ups, there was one that really took the cake. I once worked for a company that had to build a radio that was strictly build-to-print. The original drawing had a mil-spec yellow band resistor of value X in the front end. Well, with that resistor the NF could not be met. They could meet it with a value Y. Pleading with the government reps made no difference. Finally, the head of the company QA department wrote a letter to AB and actually asked them to provide resistors with value Y, but, color code them with the value X. Everyone signed off on it, and, everything was fine. I still have a copy of the letter someplace. I just got back from Fort Bragg where I was involved in certifying a system at Ka band. The antenna is a 30 footer and had only a 10 degree elevation look angle to see the bird needed. Well, guess what? There are three 30 foot dishes in the system, the other two being Ku, and this antenna was between them looking right through one of the Ku antennas. Really messed with the patterns. Now, based on my input they are changing the feed assembly and all of the RF between the two antennas to prevent the blockage. It will take a month. I am sure I will be there again. A few simple examples of hundreds. - Regards - Mike
Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ, 07731 732-886-5960 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 6:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Simulation In a message dated 14/08/2010 23:39:20 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Not that it really matters for this thread, but, the 2N2222A was one of the most common NPNs and not PNPs. As I recall, the 2N2907A was its PNP complement. - regards - Mike ------------------ Wasn't that exactly the point that was being made?:-) regards Nigel GM8PZR _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
