In the late 1960’s our high school ham radio club did the trip to Dayton, but the afternoon prior i was told by the principal that we had to get waivers from all the parents! I managed to drive all over Cleveland securing the waivers. A bit silly as guys our age were toting rifles in the jungle at the same time
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That and many of us on both sides have family distributed on each side of our common border.
Maybe politicians need to remember this.
Maybe politicians need to remember this.
Uh, this might fit the criteria. How about three people who once worked together at Motorola and now reside in three different states. We see each other once a year at the hamfest. This was the first Dayton Hamfest in recent memory that saw no rain during hamfest hours for all 4 days. It did rain one night well after we were in our hotel room 25 miles away.
The one in the yellow shirt bought 40 pounds of vintage metal vacuum tubes for $30. They have been sorted by size. I need to rig up a way of testing them. The 6V6 and 6L6 tubes will simply be tested in my SSE. There were at least 15 6L6's and probably 20 to 30 6V6's. The 6L6's are easier to find since they are bigger.
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Uhh , I couldn't make it. I was painting walls the whole weekend. It looks like I'm going to buy some tubes from you for "musical machine" amp. 🙂
Construction guy I worked with graduated from MIT and briefly worked for IBM . His mama used to say "Andy, you gotta get some degree or you will end up in construction business " hahah, He said he couldn't stand the office and love the dirty business. But that was some 3 ex wives and 5 kids before I met him. You guys look the business. I swear I met the blue shirt on some audio related occasion.
Construction guy I worked with graduated from MIT and briefly worked for IBM . His mama used to say "Andy, you gotta get some degree or you will end up in construction business " hahah, He said he couldn't stand the office and love the dirty business. But that was some 3 ex wives and 5 kids before I met him. You guys look the business. I swear I met the blue shirt on some audio related occasion.
Blue shirt on the right lives in Florida and doesn't do much DIY audio, so it is unlikely. We all lived in south Florida when we worked at Motorola, but as the plant was downsizing we all left the high cost area for low cost retirement places. Blue shirt lives in rural central Florida, Green shirt in rural Georgia, and I am in rural West Virginia.
Buying a big box full of assorted unboxed tubes is a highly unpredictable situation. In this case I saw the 6L6's and 6V6's and took the gamble. I'll know more once I sort and test them. I still have two more small boxes of metal tubes from previous hamfests. I got all of these to improve my chances at making a single one - off guitar amp I will call the MetallicAmp, all tube, no glass. I plan to create a modern multi channel high gain amp with parts that could have been built in the early 1950's.
Of the three, only the man in the middle had an engineering degree from Georgia Tech when he came to Motorola. Blue shirt had some kind of two year tech degree, and I had only a high school education. Motorola paid for me to get two college degrees while I worked there. Even so, I was not the typical engineer as I was the one who actually built and tested stuff. I left the simulatin and calculatin to the clean hands guys.
Here I am working hard. The "black box" is a prototype high speed data radio I designed which would normally reside in the trunk of a cop car. We had a full machine shop, a PCB fab, a miniature SMD assembly line, a stocked engineering parts room and several other fabrication groups in house. They were all being phased out as our group was morphing into an IC design center which I wanted no part of. I took the buyout in 2014. The other two had left before I did, involuntarily.
Buying a big box full of assorted unboxed tubes is a highly unpredictable situation. In this case I saw the 6L6's and 6V6's and took the gamble. I'll know more once I sort and test them. I still have two more small boxes of metal tubes from previous hamfests. I got all of these to improve my chances at making a single one - off guitar amp I will call the MetallicAmp, all tube, no glass. I plan to create a modern multi channel high gain amp with parts that could have been built in the early 1950's.
Of the three, only the man in the middle had an engineering degree from Georgia Tech when he came to Motorola. Blue shirt had some kind of two year tech degree, and I had only a high school education. Motorola paid for me to get two college degrees while I worked there. Even so, I was not the typical engineer as I was the one who actually built and tested stuff. I left the simulatin and calculatin to the clean hands guys.
Here I am working hard. The "black box" is a prototype high speed data radio I designed which would normally reside in the trunk of a cop car. We had a full machine shop, a PCB fab, a miniature SMD assembly line, a stocked engineering parts room and several other fabrication groups in house. They were all being phased out as our group was morphing into an IC design center which I wanted no part of. I took the buyout in 2014. The other two had left before I did, involuntarily.
