[Elecraft] Resistors

[Fred Jensen]

"John R. Lonigro" wrote:
> Also being color-blind, I never bothered to try to read the color codes

Ever notice how many males are color blind?  I think the overall
percentage is something like 80% with some form of color vision defect. 
I have nearly monochrome vision, but it's not a big disability at all:

1.  Two ties (1-stripes, 1-not stripes) work with any shirt.

2.  All shirts go with all pants.  Socks are either white or black.

3.  I only needed one dry-erase marker for the whiteboard in my office
when I still had an office.

4.  Monochrome monitors used to be cheaper than color monitors.

5.  In college in the early 60's, and working at the local TV station, I
never had to fix the color monitors because I never turned them on (the
rule was, "It dies on your shift -- you fix it")

6.  I can see in the dark way better than you can

#6 was a mixed bag.  While in Air Force Comm in SE Asia, they formed a
combat comm team out of color blind guys like me (yet another indication
that we're in the majority), sent us to jump school, and we got to do
nighttime airborne ops.  In fact, they never let us jump in daylight.

Thanks Elecraft for taping the K2 resistors in installation order since
there are a bunch of them in that kit.  I've also build a full KX1 and
the KAT2 in which the resistors were loose, but there weren't nearly as
many of them and I just measured each one, found it's value in the parts
list, and taped it to a paper in installation order.  That too had a
side benefit -- it made me read thru the manuals BEFORE turning on the
soldering iron, something I highly recommend even if you can tell amber
from yellow.

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw