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Posted by tracksionmotor on Wed Oct 10 00:13:22 2007, in response to Re: Remember TV Test Patterns?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Oct 9 20:01:33 2007. I'm not going to compete with you for being 'aged'......but I designed and built FSK RTTY comm systems...and had a fight with the airline bring back a Kleinschmidt teleprinter from DAYTON HamVention in...1975, I remember a special oscilloscope used for color TV subcarrier alignments...you could buy one in a kit from HeathKit...'Vector Alignment Scope.' Never did TV work.....I aligned RGB monitors with video game picture AFTER Degaussing. Was I ever surprised how the Earths magnetic field changed the picture after rotatating the chassis! How was the vector scope used?Thinking.......3.5795452658.....am I close? I learned Morse Code through practice bullitens transmitted by W1AW on 3.58 using a direct conversion receiver zeo beated to leaked color burst oscillators from neighbors TV sets. When W1AW went on the air, Signal Corps headset would 'ring' with 800 cycle note......'time to learn the code.' Tough to be 'aged'......real ham and real commercial operator that took the real FCC tests before a real examiner downtown...FINKELSTEIN. What commercial operator today knows operation and maintainance of a lead-acid battery dynamotor system? What extra class ham operator today can figure out plate current/screen-grid current to tune out a final adjusting for an odd antenna impeadance/wet noodle antenna? Aged: I have to show 'methods engineer' how to drop a arc chute and manipulate contactor physically after cutting out batteries....TOD flagged the APS contactor as 'stuck on.' Contactor was free and worked everytime with application of shop stud providing 75VDC through APS. Contact with third rail brought up a five month old TOD flagging a non-existent problem. I get no breaks respecting my being 'aged.' I don't drink coffee with 'aged' beans nor eat 'aged yogurt' lost in my Refrigador! I'm still running around trainzzz as an 'aged' CI...three hours O/T today! 'Aged' means that you have not met 'the first mistake that could be your last.' RRCI Peter 'If they knew how much I loved the work they'de try to make me work for free.' Train Dude |
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