[Elecraft] K2 Cal Cur Modification

George, W5YR [email protected]
Tue Jun 18 22:03:01 2002


And if any have "mmfd"on them, that is old-speak for picofarad!   <:}

We used to call them "mikes" and "mickey-mikes."

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Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 
> At 02:36 PM 06/18/2002 -0700, Earl wrote:
> >In the old days "mFd" meant "microfarads".  I have a bunch of old
> >condensors (now called "capacitors") in my junk box labelled ".01 mfd",
> >".1 mfd", etc.  They're certainly not in the millifarad range.  Even
> >though they're large physically, they're not *that* large, hi.
> 
> I thought that the note was probably using the old reference to microfarad.
> A clarification in the notes about the mod may be useful to those people
> who haven't been around electronics long enough to know this.