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KB2VXA > LED 04.08.13 14:29l 51 Lines 2754 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Hi Ian and all,
Thanks for the translation, then you'd get lost in Washington, DC without me.
You know, it's Alphabet City with all those agencies.
I see, a C&G is similar to whatever the state calls an exam needed to get a
contractor's license which opens the door to business, then comes
incorporation for tax purposes. That reminds me of it not being a legal
requirement so my basement shop had a rather odd name on the invoices; WE
Service Discorporated. Nobody bothered to read I suppose, nobody ever
questioned it. WE are my initials in this case used as a word and since I
wasn't incorporated or limited... discorporate means to leave your body. (;->)
I suppose passing a test to run a business is a good idea, frankly I wouldn't
hire a 0.5 gluteus handyman when a contractor is the equivelent of a
journeyman and carries insurance, SO very important should something go
wrong. I'm a bit surprised you'd have to know the engineering side of
electronics like the maths involved in FM in the example you gave. Maybe now
you switched topics and now it's Amateur Radio? That would make sense,
there's a lot of engineering in our Extra Class license test and it gets MUCH
worse in the GROL because that IS engineering for commercial purposes. Now
there's another thing we have in common, I built a complete FM stereo
receiver from the chassis up but it wasn't engineered in the usual sense. I
got circuits from my then extensive tech library and filled in the blanks
with years of servicing experience, when you have seen more antenna input
transformers than you can count you have a pretty good idea how to wind one
and what to wind it on. I have no idea how or why but it worked. Then I set
about building my "barrel speakers"... oh don't ask. (;->)
I never built a TV set but I took enough of them apart, discards from the
shop downtown were a parts gold mine. Little did I know that later on I'd be
a working business associate in that very same shop, that led to an
"interesting" high voltage adventure a bit too long for this bull. I will
however say it was shocking. Eh, when my computer career (if you can call it
that) started I taught myself basic hardware functions and dabbled in
programming, there are enough versions of BASIC to keep one busy and away
from Battlestar Galactica. WHAT??? Oh, didn't you know their home planet was
COBOL? There's a whole story of the Lords of Cobol based on the machine
language if you're geek enough to care. Algol? Isn't he the global warming
guy? (Here comes a brain burner, hi.)
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 13:11 on 2013-Aug-04 GMT
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