Jim Brown wrote:
>On 10/26/2010 11:25 PM, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
>> PLEASE can we give this problem a new name!
>>
>> 'Pin 1' may mean something to pro audio people, but in amateur radio
>> it's a bad name - meaningless, misleading and a barrier to
>> communication.
>
>One of the traditions in this world is that when you discover or invent
>something something you get to name it.
Only comets and children :-)
>Neil Muncy discovered the Pin 1
>Problem and published it, and that's what he chose to call it.
"Pin 1 problem" was an excellent choice because it means something
within the world of pro audio. But as you yourself have so often said,
it is only a subset of a much wider problem that affects the whole of
electronic engineering.
In that wider world, "Pin 1 problem" just doesn't work as a descriptive
term. Nobody can begin to guess what it means, unless they already
*know* the answer.
>It would
>do RF folks a lot of good to realize that some pro audio folks really do
>know more about some things than they do, and in the world of RFI,
>there's been more progress made by pro audio folks than by RF folks. :)
It is no disrespect to either Mr Muncy or the pro audio engineers to
look
for a more general - and above all, more meaningful - way to describe
the wider problem of incorrect ground returns.
--
73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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