[rollei_list] Re: Testing
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:24:57 -0600
At 04:50 PM 1/24/2014, Richard wrote, in part:
Thank you all who responded. I just thought it was time to check
everything. I think a lot of folks have both amateur radio and
photography as a hobby. I happen also to like "boatanchor" radios,
that is, large vacuum tube stuff, probably goes along with my
interest in large-format cameras. Its gotten very difficult for me
to manage either.
I have to admit that when I left College I left my system there in
the attic of the frat house - It was all surplus equipment and of no
future value. I also left a little 1 watt transmitter that let me
hook up with a guy in NY from Oklahoma. I further admit that when I
had to recover all my dad's stuff from Arizona I simply left his
receiver there.
Once I got out of the navy I had a little 10 meter mobile activity in
North Hollywood but finally dropped all ham activity since I got my
radio/electronics fix on the job. No fun simply talking to some guy
when the main topics of the conversation were how much power he was
using, what kind of antenna he was using, etc. When I moved to the
San Diego area to work on the Atlas I designed missile tracking
systems. The microwave frequencies we worked so hard to deal with
are now the same as clock frequencies of some home computers.
Still working on my book but in it I note that most of what I did at
any time was based on technology or components that didn't exist even
a year earlier.
My first real-life engineering project was to design a solid state
telemetry component. I started by buying a book on transistors,
having never seen one before then. Things do change.
DAW
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