August 11th 06, 10:27 PM
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that persondie?
Al Klein wrote:
wrote:
You denigrate the resistor code.
Not at all. It's a lot better than having the value printed on the
resistor in numbers. Even with MIL quality and transparent coatings,
the numbers on 1/8 watt resistors are kind of hard to read.
Even with the resistor color code, most of us *MEMORIZED*
a jingle like:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
I believe the military used to teach their technicians
to *MEMORIZE* that jingle. Exactly how does one develop
the resistor color code from first principles?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp
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