Based on my many years of dabbling with electronic circuits, there IS a right way and wrong way to approach fixing a circuit problem. The last thing you want to do is turn on the soldering iron and indiscriminately start ripping parts out of a circuit without first having done some analysis and narrowing down the possible culprits. But to do this you have to develop skills and have a knowledge base. Information is the key to success! Triton II ALC Problem Take time to watch this video and see how this inoperative old Ten Tec Transceiver was brought back to life using a disciplined process approach. Bottom line the problem was a blown incandescent lightbulb costing less than $1. But an underlying problem was a poor choice of a circuit element used in this critical part of the overall circuitry. Subsequent Ten Tec builds of this very same circuit replaced the lightbulb with a LED that had a far greater MTBF than the lightbulb. I draw a parallel to the current government regime and the gr...
We have all taken tests or have surveys sent to us on our smart phones where one of the choices is "none of the above". Regrettably our two-party political system has no choice such as "none of the above". Blog detractors will say you can write in a candidate. But writing in a name is but a tepid response and does not have the clout of saying neither one is qualified. A "none of the above" election was a central theme to a 1985 Movie starring Richard Pryor entitled Brewster's Millions . Thus, this is not a new idea but one that worked as a premise in a movie and could work for real. Given today that candidates typically come from the Owning Class, we need to think of some different form of just placing wealthy candidates on a slate which essentially is a forced choice selection. The ranked choice approach is gaining traction. It would be fun to rerun the 2024 election in 2026 with the ranked choice approach and maybe the tariffs and mayhem would go ...