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Most parts companies don't issue catalogs anymore; you'll need to check their web site. Mouser sent me a couple of catalogs, the last probably sometime last year. When I received no more, I assumed that it was because I hadn't ordered anything from them. Their catalog is on line, but they don't have everything: I found stuff in the Newark Electronics catalog that wasn't in Mouser's. Then there's DigiKey as well. It works a whole lot better than folks think.... and you still got the catalog to look through for your next order :-) -n6ojn Steve @ Noon-Air Heating & A/C Life is what happens while you were making other plans Well I finally got thru to a Supervisor at MOUSER and told them I had been promised a catalog a year ago and the noone in Hawaii had every heard about MOUSER and why did they promise me one and then never send it. They profuxely appologized to me and said I would be sent one right away and it weighed x lbs (I forgot how many lbs). I also told them I dont want any catalogging done via email. Joe |
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Noon-Air wrote:
They can probably still be found and prosecuted I tried to get them to do it, but they have given up. I was a mechanical engineer... we got to play with things that had moving parts :-) I tested out of three years at Ft. Monmoth New Jersey's electronics school and was awarded my MOS as a civilian acquired skill while I was in basic training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. That was the main reason I didn't re-enlist. I caught a lot of flak from people who didn't like that I was only in the service a couple months before I was doing the same work they were, without going to the military school. They got really ****ed that I could take a quick look at defective equipment and fix it before they could dig out the manuals and their notebooks. I even repaired RADAR equipment for a couple weeks while they were short handed. The RADAR techs were highly ****ed when I told them that I had read the manuals for a WWII surplus aircraft RADAR system while I was in high school, and that it wasn't that different from a TV set. Anyone remember the 15E RF tube and the 15R rectifier? Electronics has always been easy to me. Someday I will have to write a book about all of the things we did....and even some of the stuff we *didn't* get caught doing. LOL The engineers at Ft Greely insisted that we didn't need any air conditioning at the TV station, then claimed that we didn't have enough power for the 208/240 single phase through the wall AC we had bought out of our budget. It was six feet from a 100 amp three phase breaker box that was used to power the control room and transmitters. I popped off the cover to find that some genius had only used one phase, leaving me 100 amps at 208 VAC available to run a 30 amp unit. They still refused to hook it up, so I called one of the enlisted men who worked in that section. He rummaged around a few abandoned buildings and brought me what I needed to hook it up myself. We cooled the TV studio by opening the back door in the winter time. the -40 degree air did a nice job cooling the set, till a bear tried to get in one night. Enlisted men are extremely sly and cunning, and bear considerable watching. -Army Officers Manual 1836 I worked in the "Weathervision" section at Ft Rucker Alabama, which included CATV, Educational TV, CARS Microwave and other assorted equipment. Our mission was to provide weather data to the control towers, flight ready rooms and classrooms where they taught the helicopter pilots to fly. We also maintained the entertainment CATV systems on the base, in parts of the on base housing areas. Some idiot cut the cable feeding our day room and pulled it to his room in the barracks. I reported it to the civilian contractor, but three days later it was still out, so I borrowed one of our bucket trucks from my section and repaired it at lunch time. I was just finishing up when the guy showed up. He was rather upset, till he found out that i had not only repaired it, but I moved the drop to where the moron couldn't reach it where it ran from the pole to the roof of the three story brick building. Then he told me that he was the only tech that serviced the base, and that I could put a drop into my one man room on the second floor, as long as I hid it for inspections. He offered me the supplies, but I had enough used stuff in the truck to do the job. The following Monday afternoon I got back from my duty section to find that the wire had been pulled loose from the hook outside my window, and run into the CQ room of the other company. I told them that it was MY drop that they had stolen. I received an obscene gesture and a threat, so i smiled and left. A couple hours later when they turned their TV on, I got a really good grip on the wire from my second floor window and pulled, really hard. I heard a loud crash, and a lot of cursing. Then they were pounding on my door, demanding that I give it back, and pay to replace their TV. It never happened, and I had cable TV till the day I left for Alaska. ;-) The sig file is there to be in the face of a moron who has been stalking me on line for some time, and a couple idiots who don't think much of the US military, and veterans in general. I bet he never served.... probably a draft dodger that ran to Canade from the Peoples Repubic of Berkeley. He's a mental welfare case. Neither our military, or Canada would have him. When I got my draft notice, I was on USCGC Glacier in the Bearing Sea. BTW, the quarterly memorial for Veterans who have died in marion County Florida in the past quarter is this morning, but I'm not well enough to attend. Hopefully next time you will be able to attend. In any case, I salute you. Thank you, and you as well. My mission to help local disabled Veterans is to repair and give away used computers to those who want, but can't afford a computer a used system that will let them do email and browse the web. The VA recently upgraded the computers that handle prescriptions, and those of us under the VA's care can refill their prescriptions online. http://www.myhealthevet.va.gov/ -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida Speaking along those lines, I was an RO at a WW1 CCC camp in Fla when I got a msg from Sig Corps at WUO Ft Benning asking me to come up and sign up with them and they would put me to work right away. No basic training, or boot camp. I grabbed it as I knew I could handle the CW up to around 40WPM at the CCC's. Only problem was I got paid $8 a month and $22 a month went direct to my Mom. After started at WD Radio in Benning even as a PFC I was drawing down about $80 a month in 1940. Reason WUO handled not only the S.C. WD Radio traffic, but also handled all the Western Union and Postal Telegrph stuff accross the counter so both W.U. and Postal Tel paid us a commision on top of our Military Pay. Never went to any S.C. School until about 1944 as we rotated back to the USA on our 85 points system of overseas duty. They did'nt know what to do with all the 5 and 6 stripe NCO's that were being thrown back to USA, So they sent us to Camp Crowder S.C. school and taught us how to be technicians on wide band FM which was just coming into existance. Exited at Drew Field in FLA. just after VJ Day Joe/KH6JF/ABM6JF/KP4EX/W4FAG/W9ZUU |
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message ... Noon-Air wrote: They can probably still be found and prosecuted I tried to get them to do it, but they have given up. I was a mechanical engineer... we got to play with things that had moving parts :-) I tested out of three years at Ft. Monmoth New Jersey's electronics school and was awarded my MOS as a civilian acquired skill while I was in basic training at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. That was the main reason I didn't re-enlist. I caught a lot of flak from people who didn't like that I was only in the service a couple months before I was doing the same work they were, without going to the military school. They got really ****ed that I could take a quick look at defective equipment and fix it before they could dig out the manuals and their notebooks. I even repaired RADAR equipment for a couple weeks while they were short handed. The RADAR techs were highly ****ed when I told them that I had read the manuals for a WWII surplus aircraft RADAR system while I was in high school, and that it wasn't that different from a TV set. Anyone remember the 15E RF tube and the 15R rectifier? Electronics has always been easy to me. Someday I will have to write a book about all of the things we did....and even some of the stuff we *didn't* get caught doing. LOL The engineers at Ft Greely insisted that we didn't need any air conditioning at the TV station, then claimed that we didn't have enough power for the 208/240 single phase through the wall AC we had bought out of our budget. It was six feet from a 100 amp three phase breaker box that was used to power the control room and transmitters. I popped off the cover to find that some genius had only used one phase, leaving me 100 amps at 208 VAC available to run a 30 amp unit. They still refused to hook it up, so I called one of the enlisted men who worked in that section. He rummaged around a few abandoned buildings and brought me what I needed to hook it up myself. We cooled the TV studio by opening the back door in the winter time. the -40 degree air did a nice job cooling the set, till a bear tried to get in one night. Enlisted men are extremely sly and cunning, and bear considerable watching. -Army Officers Manual 1836 I worked in the "Weathervision" section at Ft Rucker Alabama, which included CATV, Educational TV, CARS Microwave and other assorted equipment. Our mission was to provide weather data to the control towers, flight ready rooms and classrooms where they taught the helicopter pilots to fly. We also maintained the entertainment CATV systems on the base, in parts of the on base housing areas. Some idiot cut the cable feeding our day room and pulled it to his room in the barracks. I reported it to the civilian contractor, but three days later it was still out, so I borrowed one of our bucket trucks from my section and repaired it at lunch time. I was just finishing up when the guy showed up. He was rather upset, till he found out that i had not only repaired it, but I moved the drop to where the moron couldn't reach it where it ran from the pole to the roof of the three story brick building. Then he told me that he was the only tech that serviced the base, and that I could put a drop into my one man room on the second floor, as long as I hid it for inspections. He offered me the supplies, but I had enough used stuff in the truck to do the job. The following Monday afternoon I got back from my duty section to find that the wire had been pulled loose from the hook outside my window, and run into the CQ room of the other company. I told them that it was MY drop that they had stolen. I received an obscene gesture and a threat, so i smiled and left. A couple hours later when they turned their TV on, I got a really good grip on the wire from my second floor window and pulled, really hard. I heard a loud crash, and a lot of cursing. Then they were pounding on my door, demanding that I give it back, and pay to replace their TV. It never happened, and I had cable TV till the day I left for Alaska. ;-) When I was stationed on west coast WHECs, I tapped into the ships cable system so I had cable at my rack, and had a little 4 inch TV and little stereo tucked up in a trap door I cut in the the false overhead over my rack... it worked great :-) On the same ship, we had 12 engineers that were licensed HAMs and the CO cot a bit miffed when he found out that the engineers could copy CW better than his radiomen could... it was pretty funny. LOL The sig file is there to be in the face of a moron who has been stalking me on line for some time, and a couple idiots who don't think much of the US military, and veterans in general. I bet he never served.... probably a draft dodger that ran to Canade from the Peoples Repubic of Berkeley. He's a mental welfare case. Neither our military, or Canada would have him. Maybe they should use him for target practice?? When I got my draft notice, I was on USCGC Glacier in the Bearing Sea. BTW, the quarterly memorial for Veterans who have died in marion County Florida in the past quarter is this morning, but I'm not well enough to attend. Hopefully next time you will be able to attend. In any case, I salute you. Thank you, and you as well. My mission to help local disabled Veterans is to repair and give away used computers to those who want, but can't afford a computer a used system that will let them do email and browse the web. The VA recently upgraded the computers that handle prescriptions, and those of us under the VA's care can refill their prescriptions online. http://www.myhealthevet.va.gov/ -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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Joseph Fenn wrote:
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida Speaking along those lines, I was an RO at a WW1 CCC camp in Fla when I got a msg from Sig Corps at WUO Ft Benning asking me to come up and sign up with them and they would put me to work right away. No basic training, or boot camp. I grabbed it as I knew I could handle the CW up to around 40WPM at the CCC's. Only problem was I got paid $8 a month and $22 a month went direct to my Mom. After started at WD Radio in Benning even as a PFC I was drawing down about $80 a month in 1940. Reason WUO handled not only the S.C. WD Radio traffic, but also handled all the Western Union and Postal Telegrph stuff accross the counter so both W.U. and Postal Tel paid us a commision on top of our Military Pay. Never went to any S.C. School until about 1944 as we rotated back to the USA on our 85 points system of overseas duty. They did'nt know what to do with all the 5 and 6 stripe NCO's that were being thrown back to USA, So they sent us to Camp Crowder S.C. school and taught us how to be technicians on wide band FM which was just coming into existance. Exited at Drew Field in FLA. just after VJ Day Joe/KH6JF/ABM6JF/KP4EX/W4FAG/W9ZUU Good for you! A lot of hams and people who knew CW were needed in a hurry, and the military knew that they had to get them where they were needed as soon as possible, so they bypassed basic training and AIT wherever possible. I always enjoy hearing from other Veterans who served in the signal corps or AFRTS/AFRN. Thank you for your service to our country. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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Noon-Air wrote:
Someday I will have to write a book about all of the things we did....and even some of the stuff we *didn't* get caught doing. LOL One evening the DJ announced that the request line was open, and that he would play any record in the library. When he refused to play my request, I turned the AM BCB transmitter off. ;-) Enlisted men are extremely sly and cunning, and bear considerable watching. -Army Officers Manual 1836 Some officers were even worse than the enlisted. Two lieutenants at Ft. Greely drew their M-16s from the Armory, signed a tactically equipped jeep out of the motor pool and went rabbit hunting in "Buffalo Drop Zone" which was a restricted area. One of them shot at a rabbit but he hit the rock it was sitting on. The bullet ricocheted into the Jeep, setting it on fire, and starting a full blown forest fire. I had to go fight the fire, and as we were finishing I saw the two officers sitting back to back in the bed of a pickup truck, surrounded by CID. One of them was warning them not to move, because they would love to shoot them for trying to escape. The last i heard, they were sentenced to 20 years at Leavenworth. When I was stationed on west coast WHECs, I tapped into the ships cable system so I had cable at my rack, and had a little 4 inch TV and little stereo tucked up in a trap door I cut in the the false overhead over my rack... it worked great :-) On the same ship, we had 12 engineers that were licensed HAMs and the CO cot a bit miffed when he found out that the engineers could copy CW better than his radiomen could... it was pretty funny. LOL Yeah, very few officers had ANY sense of humor. On the other hand, some knew when to leave well enough alone. I only stood Monday morning formation a couple times the whole year that i was in Alaska, and my C.O. would apologize if he woke me up during Monday morning inspections, then back quietly out of my room. ;-) He's a mental welfare case. Neither our military, or Canada would have him. Maybe they should use him for target practice?? Not worth the ammunition. Maybe use him for a door stop? ;-) -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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