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August 13th 06, 02:58 AM
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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
wrote: Cecil Moore wrote: 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? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp How did capacitors escape getting color coded? ssshhhhh bb don't ask such questions please |
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