"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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How often should you clean your screen grids?
a. Daily
b. Weekly
c. Monthly
d. Any time a grid leak is detected

When it gets clogged with electrons
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CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

I can't belive no one has put up the correct answer. When grid leak becomes
a problem, adding a dynatron oscillator, with it's negative resistance
absorbs all the leaked electrons.

New question:

A Homotron is -
a. An electron that has been given a positive charge
b. An electron given a negative charge
c. A queer electron that blows fuses
d. Who knows, it wasn't in the list of questions I memorized.
"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
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"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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How often should you clean your screen grids?
a. Daily
b. Weekly
c. Monthly
d. Any time a grid leak is detected

When it gets clogged with electrons
--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:18:11 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:

I can't belive no one has put up the correct answer. When grid leak becomes
a problem, adding a dynatron oscillator, with it's negative resistance
absorbs all the leaked electrons.

New question:

A Homotron is -
a. An electron that has been given a positive charge
b. An electron given a negative charge
c. A queer electron that blows fuses
d. Who knows, it wasn't in the list of questions I memorized.

The answer is both 'a' and 'c'. An electron that has a positive charge
must be queer.

Walt, W2DU

Walter Maxwell wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:18:11 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:


I can't belive no one has put up the correct answer. When grid leak becomes
a problem, adding a dynatron oscillator, with it's negative resistance
absorbs all the leaked electrons.

New question:

A Homotron is -
a. An electron that has been given a positive charge
b. An electron given a negative charge
c. A queer electron that blows fuses
d. Who knows, it wasn't in the list of questions I memorized.


The answer is both 'a' and 'c'. An electron that has a positive charge
must be queer.

Walt, W2DU
The correct answer is: none. A homotron has a neuter charge.

Dave WD9BDZ

New question:

A Homotron is -
a. An electron that has been given a positive charge
b. An electron given a negative charge
c. A queer electron that blows fuses
d. Who knows, it wasn't in the list of questions I memorized.
"Caveat Lector" wrote in message


Harkens back to the days of yo

Question ? The best way to prevent electrical shock is: ?

Answer (think ) was D: Double indemnety Life Insurance !

(That was on one of the early commercial FCC Phone tests!)
Jim

Jim - NN7K wrote:

Harkens back to the days of yo

Question ? The best way to prevent electrical shock is: ?

Answer (think ) was D: Double indemnety Life Insurance !

(That was on one of the early commercial FCC Phone tests!)
Jim

He speaks the truth -- I remember that one also.

The passing score on those tests was 75%, but you only had to know the
answers to 50% in order to pass. There were four choices to each
question; two were of the quality of the one Jim quotes. So if you
answered the half you knew, you had a 50-50 chance with the rest of them
by throwing out the ridiculous answers and random guessing between the
two that remained. (Actually, you could do better yet with even less
real knowledge by using a little basic testmanship.)

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Do not remember that question on my exam in the 50s. Do remember much
huffing and puffing about the quality of the schematics that I had to draw
and questions about B modulation (spark). Had to go to Detroit to take the
exam. Entirely different city now.

But then, you may have taken the exam before I did. Fortunately,
licenses in those days did not have age information on them. Had a job with
a radio station when I was underage - the owner, also a Scot, knew not to
ask and I knew not to tell. Still can smell the mice that got RF burned in
the ammeter shunts. Some of us are getting on......

73 Mac N8TT

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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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Jim - NN7K wrote:

Harkens back to the days of yo

Question ? The best way to prevent electrical shock is: ?

Answer (think ) was D: Double indemnety Life Insurance !

(That was on one of the early commercial FCC Phone tests!)
Jim

He speaks the truth -- I remember that one also.

The passing score on those tests was 75%, but you only had to know the
answers to 50% in order to pass. There were four choices to each
question; two were of the quality of the one Jim quotes. So if you
answered the half you knew, you had a 50-50 chance with the rest of them
by throwing out the ridiculous answers and random guessing between the
two that remained. (Actually, you could do better yet with even less
real knowledge by using a little basic testmanship.)

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

J. Mc Laughlin wrote:
. . .
But then, you may have taken the exam before I did. Fortunately,
licenses in those days did not have age information on them. Had a job with
a radio station when I was underage - the owner, also a Scot, knew not to
ask and I knew not to tell. . . .

My mother had to drive me to my first day on the job as a broadcast
engineer -- I wasn't old enough to get a driver's license or, in the
state I was in, even a learner's permit. (I did know how to drive,
though, having gotten a learner's permit in Alaska at 14. Drove quite a
bit of the way down the Alaska highway, too, unpaved at the time.) I'd
been turned down for a job as a golf caddie because I wasn't old enough.
That was 1961.

The owner of that first station I worked for became a fugitive from a
felony conviction in about 1964. Don't think they ever caught him.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Dear Roy:
Outstanding. What a shame that that route for young people is closed.
I was able to ride a bicycle to the station. Would buy a quart of milk
on my way to the station from a delivery van and have a simple breakfast
while playing some sort of public service announcement to start the
broadcast day. My Mother had to cash my checks for me because I was working
when the bank was open. Very interesting people pass through broadcast
stations. Another form of early education.
Obviously, we both looked older than we were. Many years latter, I
learned that I had been chosen over other (smarter?) candidates for some
important opportunities because of the experience and initiative shown by
working as a broadcast "engineer." How do young people today demonstrate
such characteristics?

73, Mac N8TT
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J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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J. Mc Laughlin wrote:
. . .
But then, you may have taken the exam before I did. Fortunately,
licenses in those days did not have age information on them. Had a job
with
a radio station when I was underage - the owner, also a Scot, knew not
to
ask and I knew not to tell. . . .

My mother had to drive me to my first day on the job as a broadcast
engineer -- I wasn't old enough to get a driver's license or, in the
state I was in, even a learner's permit. (I did know how to drive,
though, having gotten a learner's permit in Alaska at 14. Drove quite a
bit of the way down the Alaska highway, too, unpaved at the time.) I'd
been turned down for a job as a golf caddie because I wasn't old enough.
That was 1961.

The owner of that first station I worked for became a fugitive from a
felony conviction in about 1964. Don't think they ever caught him.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL