Thanks Jim Thompson

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:01:52 +1000, "Amigo"

You're quite welcome! ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |

Cool!

--Winston

I note that Genome allowed his site's registration to lapse and that, while some of the verbiage is accessible via archive.org, all the graphics are long gone.

Same deal for the content of Reg Edwards' site after he passed.

Have any of the other older silverbacks made plans for their content into the distant future?

Wow - Lafayette part numbers! That name brings back some memories. Used to love rooting around there as a kid.

All of the software apps that Reg G4FGQ developed and made available to us are still alive at

A friend obtained the right to keep them available to the public from Reg's daughter shortly after his death. Reg published a veritable plethora of amateur radio and RF related software over the years. As a tribute to his expertise, thoroughness and accuracy, I've never encountered a bug in any of the software that I've used.

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David
dgminala at mediacombb dot net

In article , "Amigo"

Too bad it does not really work.

What the mike does is amplify sounds by resonance, but there is vertually no directionality. You need multiple in phase sounds to get directionality. The shotgun mike only has separate discrete sounds which do not combine in phase.

greg

It's been too many years, but I'm sure it works.

Unless charge is not conserved anymore :-) ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |

That law was recently repealed by Executive Order, I'm sorry to say. :-D

Michael

Probably because it was misunderstood and/or misapplied by so many. :-)

Ed

Charge is always conserved. If you think it isn't, you're either too ignorant (or obstinate) to understand where it went to or came from.

My post: "How many Coulombs can a 1mH inductor charged to 1A deliver?" was meant to elicit (?) some thought that would help lurkers understand that.

Instead it elicited obnoxious responses, even from the resident PhD.

'Tis a shame :-(

(?) For "markp", the resident illiterate ignoramus:

...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |

Yep. Also Olson electronics stores, and mail order from Allied Radio (Knight Kit!) and Burnstein-Appelbee and more; Newark electronics will call (call them up, order, and show up with cash, at age 14 they thought you were a runner for dad's shop). One of my bigger surprises was getting uA741 op amps (mil overruns and other surplus) at a surplus house in Mountain View for $0.50 each in the mid to late

1960s. And Motorola, NS, GE, RCA, TI, Fairchild and other semi. mfgs. making all kinds of experimenters kits. Growing up in silicon valley was great.

(...)

I concur!

Olson Electronics in Santa Clara with the wide variety of weird contraptions cobbled together in the store.

How about Weatherbee Industrial Electronics on 4th St. SJ?

Haltek in Mountain View (Plymouth St?) before they moved to the other MV address on Linda Vista?

Mike Quinn Electronics in San Leandro... Several more.

A moment of silence please:

--Winston

Not sure if i ever had been there.

Didn't make it in at either address

Out of reach range wise.

I hunted a LOT in surplus stores.

I hung out at...

from 1958-1962. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |

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For a healthy dose of The Past, I recently visited a shop that has all the indefinable charm of the best of these great old stores.

Very much worth the trip. Actually saw young folks shopping there.

A hopeful sign for the hobby!

--Winston

(...)

YES! Looks like heaven.

:)

--Winston

That's better than "Gringo" :-) ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     |
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |

"Amigo"? That's an Arizonan you're addressing there, buddy. Have your ID ready. ;-)

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But only if you're legal--illegals are exempt. :-)

Cheers, James Arthur