I bought a new Ramsey FM30 FM broadcast band transmitter kit. I have it in hand. I was also sent gratis the repair and upgrade parts for the old transmitter shown here. The most critical item was the final amplifier which is a GAL5 surface mount technology (SMT) amplifier chip. This is the part I determined was bad in the previous report. The part is very tiny and has no leads (wires) off of it...
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Wow! A full day’s work!
That means 24 hours, not eight! I have a fairly large and involved web server share where I keep all my web sites alive and well. I have a reason to need a new version of one of the programming languages I use called PHP 5.2 . The old server I was living on only could give me a very old PHP 4.x version. Yeah geek talk but reason to make a change. It is...
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I just spent two days at the Vectric Users meeting over by the DFW airport here in Dallas. Vectric produces several CNC designer products (I have them all) but their premiere product Aspire (especially) is the creatived software I use the most to design and create the complex forms I machine with my HB2 router machine. The results are the Lithophanes, carved wood signs, 3-D sculptures and 2-D components I make on my machines. I discovered I am fairly competent with...
Continue reading...iPhone Gizmo
What a joke. What ever happened to battery life? The iPhone is a wonderful gizmo that happens to include a phone. But I have to drag my charging cord wherever I go. I don’t get or make that many calls but all the other tricks this gizmo will do just eats stored electrons like me with a bag of spicy jellybeans. The bottom of the bag shows up way too soon. My old phone,which was only a phone,...
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