From a 2017-06-10 comment regarding a Weston capacitance meter on FB group vintage test equipment Reminds me of the ” kicker” meters the phone techs used on the phone lines. There was a polarity switch that reversed the pair, and the tech could tell about the line from the kick the meter needle gave when
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I came across a schematic of a computer microphone from Circuit Exchange. This interested me because I have never had any success with using the microphone jack found on the back of desktop PCs. First off, the typical microphone jack seems to be a three conductor, 3.5 mm ‘headphone’ jack, with the tip being the
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For both of my cell phones, I receive far more junk ‘spam’ calls than legitimate calls. I have reported hundreds of calls to do not call.gov, and I’ve seen no letup in the number of calls, if anything it has become worse. I believe that the telemarketing co’s get my name from a list of
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