When I buy something on ebay, unless it's new, I buy it with the assumption and expectation that it don't work. Its broke. Period. That way I'm never disappointed. I look at a ham radio, and wonder ho

Here ya go Chuck. https://www.micromark.com/search?keywords=filament The magnetic iron filament will actually rust! They have stainless, iron and copper. Vince.

You will be missed. Vince.

Thanks for the heads up! Vince.

It's $56 shipping across the US or I would've. Vince.

Something to be careful about with the JAMMA extenders; they sometimes tie A & B sides together at the high number end, where the interconnect pins are. I had ICs popping their tops in an FC-501 becau

That's why a packing slip inside the box is important. Some of the fedex pouches (that thin clear envelope you stick on the package with the label inside) will rip open when slid across the floor of a

Sorry no quoting, this internet connection and mail program is less than desirable - I'm remote. RG-174 is definitely 50 ohms. Here's a link to a data sheet on it: https://www.pasternack.jp/images/Pro

While I'm thinking of it, Bob, can you take some pics of that for the TekWiki? Thanks! Vince - K8ZW.

I don't know what connectors are on your plugin, but milliohm meters typically take a 4 wire probe set. Two wires from each probe tip to individual plugs to the meter. Often a piece of coax, like RG17

I didn't see Chuck's post, but you can get plastic in liquid form from Smooth-On.com. Wear an shop apron or old shirt when mixin, don't ask how I know! SmoothCast 300 should do the job fine. 1:1 mixin

There was a hard drive available for it. It was small, 10MB I think, but it worked. Really slow, but better than tapes. Vince - K8ZW.

Every group on groups.io has a database to use. Perhaps we can make use of that. Vince.

I just had a return with some cables I got that were wrong. Ebay sent me a shipping label to send the cables back. Once received, I got the refund within a couple of hours. Vince.

The underlying OS is based on FreeBSD, it's a Berkeley based unix. There are subtle differences between the two, such as the mac is case insensitive whereas unix is very case sensitive. If you know un

According to TekWiki, it's a programmable test fixture for the 576 curve tracer. Not mine, no connection to the seller. $99 BIN. https://www.ebay.com/itm/142915965722 Vince.

The line wrap got ya. That l on the next line is part of the url. Here it is again: https://baltimore.craigslist.org/ele/d/large-lot-of-tektronix/6740728428.html Vince.

Recently when working on a Yaesu FT-857D that got a power spike, I had a number of really tiny parts to replace, and I mean tiny! Both of these are diodes, the smaller one was in the 857, they use eng

It stops people from nit picking their own posts. 'Oops, I forgot a comma.' 'Oops, I mis-spelled there.' 'Oops, I missed a period.' Vince - K8ZW.

Almost forgot, he's from St. Paul, Minnesota. Vince.