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...
Continue reading...Thank You
It’s been a good day. Thank’s Shel for sharing the vigil. It helped me a lot and Mom especially knowing you and I were there. And thanks for all the blessing and prayers from those who have been watching FB. I told mom when the day started this was her first day towards being a cancer survivor rather than a cancer victim. Y’all know this first step has been a good one. Everything went as...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...No FM
Wahhh! I just discovered another victim of the lightning disaster at the ol’ homestead. I have a small FM broadcast band transmitter (1/4 watt) that I use to transmit Christmas music for my computerized light show. Yesterday I discovered it had become a paperweight. It was setting among the computer gear on my large desk and was plugged in but turned off using the button on the front. It is powered by one of those...
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