[Elecraft] [K1] Filter question..

[Don Wilhelm]

Fred,

That hits right at home base.  Yes, these women have lots of names for 
those "in between" colors, and paint manufacturers amplify that by a 
factor of 10.

My wife tells me that I only had 8 crayons in my box when I was a kid, 
but that is sufficient for reading resistor values.

I have compared resistor color bands on some older carbon resistors that 
I still have in my junkbox, and I can say for certainty that the colors 
are not as saturated as they used to be, so it is not all my eyes (which 
admittedly are not as great as they used to be).
RF Choke bands are about the same as the resistor bands.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/23/2012 10:49 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> On 9/23/2012 7:17 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>
>> If your color
>> acuity is not sufficient to clearly determine the difference between the
>> red bands and the orange, ask a female for assistance.
> Ummm ... not always helpful.  I have no color vision, I've showed
> resistors to my wife who tells me, "Well that first one is sort of
> salmon-ey maybe closer to peach."  Salmon is a fish, peach is a fruit.
> Colors are red, blue, green, orange, yellow, violet ... you know, like
> in preschool.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
> - www.cqp.org
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>