Re: why do we use these

BobG wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
I was working part time in a TV shop at 13, and I still do my best to keep up,
40+ years later.
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So Mike... I guess you are the neighborhood electronics fixit guy...
folks bring their radios over to have the tubes checked and the IF
tweaked? Have a workshop with a scope and signal generator and stuff?


Not anymore. At my last job I worked on $80,000 (US) telemetry
receivers as an engineering tech. I never "tweaked" IFs. I bought a
signal generator and VTVM back in the '60s to do proper alignment, when
needed. I repaired Commercial two way radios at one time, and I was a
broadcast engineer in both Radio and TV (WACX, 5 MW EIRP, 1749 foot
tower)


Most of my test equipment was destroyed during the hurricanes a
couple years ago, and I still need to replace the roof on both shop
buildings before I even consider setting up a couple full benches,
again. The benches are covered in plastic, and unusable right now.

I am 100% disabled now, and can only stand a couple hours a day,
which makes a lot of what I want to do impossible. I spend my time
repairing computers and giving them away, to try to stay busy.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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