[Elecraft] Speaking of off-shore manufacture...

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

They get wound with software.  Human beings are in charge of how many
turns on primary and secondary.  1:1 transformers do not occur
naturally in nature.   : >)   Guy.

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>> Don't forget the Mars Surveyor, that crashed because they got the
>> units of distance mixed up in the programming....   Stuff like that
>> happens.
>
> Transformers [the electrical kind, not the toy kind] have software?
>
> I got about 2 1/2 years at NASA Houston working on Apollo while in the
> USAF.  Much later, when Surveyor had disappeared behind Mars, one of the
> admin people at work stopped me in the hall and said, "You must know,
> what happened?"  I told her, "They shot it down, just like we would
> have."  She kept some distance from me after that.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010
> - www.cqp.org
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