- 121. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:00:05 -0600
- Not much. They are only a fraction of a mil thick and good insulators stand a few hundred volts per mil so long as there's no sharp points against the latex. Latex isn't that great and its terribly p
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00218.html (10,572 bytes)
- 122. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:05:46 -0600
- A good electrician also works faster than I do and does a neater job, especially bending conduit. Its great to hear that there WAS a defibrillator. Its greater that the machines are easier to use and
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00220.html (10,890 bytes)
- 123. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:29:08 -0600
- Sometimes its not been the poorly trained, its been the poorly maintained tool or work place and the deceased didn't do anything wrong. I have testified in depositions (involving other products probl
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00222.html (13,343 bytes)
- 124. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:34:32 -0600
- At least avoid wearing polyester and acrylic and working on a wool carpet in the winter without lots of antistatic spray on the carpet nd whole house humidifiction while wearing only cotton clothes.
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00239.html (11,285 bytes)
- 125. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:46:44 -0600
- I had several never get to the deposition stage. Those were the ones where my report was a quarter page with a simple wiring diagram attached. Though one widow did grumble mightily about paying so mu
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00240.html (13,462 bytes)
- 126. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:55:31 -0600
- I've had several of the type, "when did you quit beating your wife?" One involved a battery operated flashing lamp. I set it on a post and took a drive one evening about dusk and with terrain and all
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00241.html (12,258 bytes)
- 127. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:02:51 -0600
- One time after leaving my foot prints all over the power company defense attorney in deposition the attorney who had hired me teased me about not respecting that attorney's glorious years as a quarte
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00242.html (11,584 bytes)
- 128. Re: [TenTec] antenna analyzer reading? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:49:47 -0600
- Most of the R of a decent antenna is radiation resistance, not wire loss resistance. You can't tell about an antenna's efficiency or looses by looking at the feed impedance. Unless its a very well do
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00257.html (12,386 bytes)
- 129. Re: [TenTec] Paragon II on AM (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:22:56 -0600
- ALC limits peaks. Set the drive control for the unmodulated carrier you need to get 100 watts carrier out of the amplfier, then the microphone gain for 100% modulation. Monitor with the scope. 73, Je
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00270.html (8,342 bytes)
- 130. Re: [TenTec] antenna analyzer reading? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:41:59 -0600
- Then its performing as well as can be expected. Its a compromise and the feed line lengths are critical. Yours seem a bit short. Now its no longer resembling the G5RV. Your traps only help on 80 mete
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00271.html (15,535 bytes)
- 131. Re: [TenTec] antenna analyzer reading? and the G%RV (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:47:35 -0600
- Technically, there are standing wave ratios everywhere in any feed line. Sometimes the SWR is low (1:1) when the load matches the characteristic impedance of the line or is high when the load does no
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00276.html (14,413 bytes)
- 132. Re: [TenTec] Electric safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:05:43 -0600
- I find cotton more comfortable, because I'm allergic to polyester. And some polyester treatments cause me to have an odor about three hours into the day starting with clean clothes. My nose says abou
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00290.html (8,167 bytes)
- 133. Re: [TenTec] antenna analyzer reading? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:08:57 -0600
- But in the extreme cases of feeding a dipole over a wide range where the feed impedance may be 50 ohms at half wave resonance not too high above the ground up to 1000 ohms at full wave resonance, the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00310.html (13,130 bytes)
- 134. Re: [TenTec] Orion RIT encoder (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:09:24 -0600
- Sounds like the perfect place for the application of a quarter drop of DeoxIT by Cramolin per pin before the exercising of the connectors. 73, Jerry, K0CQ ____________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-02/msg00317.html (12,291 bytes)
- 135. Re: [TenTec] Low-pass filter? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:42:24 -0600
- Yup the 21 MHz IFs did cause more than a little neighborhood unrest. That's not necessarily true. Temporarily most VHF stations went UHF for digital and many went back to their VHF channels, more hig
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-03/msg00004.html (10,107 bytes)
- 136. Re: [TenTec] Sidetone only for Omni 6+ in CW mode? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:30:04 -0600
- But that's still a few watts. Feed that to a shielded dummy load. 73, Jerry, K0CQ _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-03/msg00034.html (8,447 bytes)
- 137. Re: [TenTec] Sidetone only for Omni 6+ in CW mode? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:53:18 -0600
- A wattmeter based on practical silicon diodes has a minimum threshold. Its only zero output if your neighbor can't hear it on an antenna. 73, Jerry, K0CQ _____________________________________________
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-03/msg00048.html (10,635 bytes)
- 138. Re: [TenTec] Paragon Problem (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:24:01 -0600
- First tighten all the board mounting/grounding screws. Then get some Cramolin Deoxit (I prefer the dropper bottle) and apply a quarter drop to each cable connector pin and exercise the cable connecti
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-03/msg00072.html (8,013 bytes)
- 139. Re: [TenTec] Titan III screen current question..... (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:39:32 -0600
- The TT manual that I downloaded only identifies the lamps on the schematic and shows them separate from the meter and the meter wiring. The lamps are hard wired to the 12 volt supply but the meters p
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-03/msg00087.html (10,657 bytes)
- 140. Re: [TenTec] Dial lamps (score: 1)
- Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:37:58 -0600
- Except that some haven't found the lighting from the LEDs so nice. Unfortunately a single LED lights in only one direction while an incandescent lamp puts out nearly a sphere of light except through
- /archives//html/TenTec/2010-03/msg00092.html (9,942 bytes)
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