[RFI] Odd broadcast radio reception.

[David Eckhardt]

And worse yet, they come out of 4-years not knowing Ohm's Law!!!  They may
be able to put it on the white board, but
certainly don't know how to use it.  Pretty important!!!! ??

Dave - WØLEV

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 6:44 PM Charles Gallo <charlie at thegallos.com> wrote:

> And these days, you get an EE Degree, and they barely cover BJTs,
> everything is FETs/MOSFETs. BJTs are basically considered “old, obsolescent
> tech”
>
> --
> 73 de KG2V
> Charlie
>
> > On Jul 5, 2021, at 6:40 PM, David Eckhardt <davearea51a at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > ARRL has always been behind the power curve.  Remember how long it took
> > them to recognize the lowly transistor and to start including it in their
> > publications, especially QST and the Handbook?  A long time well after
> > industry had accepted the new, smaller, cooler, and few aging issues, all
> > of which vacuum tubes have!  They couldn't grasp current controlled
> > instead of voltage controlled active devices.  I was the one who 'taught'
> > ARRL how to represent printed transmission lines and printed reactive
> lines
> > in the 1985 Handbook, 1296 transverter.
> >
> > Now they want to give Technician licensees HF privileges with no
> additional
> > questions on the 'exam' (such as it is) applied to HF operations.  I give
> > up...... even though my ex wife gave me life membership - long ago.
> >
> > Jim, I believe we both know Ken Wyatt.  I recently attended his 70th
> > surprise birthday party in Fort Collins, Co.  I'm 74 and counting.
> >
> > Dave - WØLEV
> >
> >> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:37 PM Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 7/5/2021 11:27 AM, David Eckhardt wrote:
> >>> A strong RF source likely sent the front end and maybe even the IF into
> >>> saturation to produce a condition where nothing was received.
> >>
> >> This mechanism makes great sense to me. BTW -- THIS is my definition of
> >> "fundamental overload," and it was rejected by ARRL when I was asked to
> >> write a chapter on RFI for the Handbook more than ten years ago. Theirs
> >> dates back to the days of analog TV, when it was common for rigs to
> >> produce harmonics that caused TVI.
> >>
> >> 73, Jim K9YC
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