My Dad sometimes tells a story - so since I never learnt to listen, I probably don't have the details exactly right.<div><br></div><div>He worked in a government factory, probably 1960's - 1970's. The factory took delivery of an epoxy hardening chamber that used high power microwave radiation - this was before domestic microwave ovens were common.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The operators complained that the chamber was too dark.</div><div><br></div><div>My Father recalled a time like Kai described where radio waves lit an unpowered fluoro. So casually - as if it was the normal thing to do - he instructed the electrician's to fit a fluro in each chamber but not to wire it up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Eventually, probably to humour him, the fluros were fitted and to my Dad's relief, they worked perfectly. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Kai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vk6ksj@westnet.com.au">vk6ksj@westnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">One night out camping along the Gibb River road with family, parked at a lovely spot not too far from a waterfall, I was on 80 metres (3.6MHz) chatting away from the mobile rig in the car, mum wanted some light in the camp so she attached a lightweight fluoro on my heavy duty roo-bar mounted antenna.<br>
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Pushing standard 100watts PEP, variable modulation gave is a small light show with the fluoro. Not a huge story, just a bit of fun :)<br>
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To: "Curtis Bayne" <<a href="mailto:curtis@bayne.com.au">curtis@bayne.com.au</a>>, "Paul Jones" <<a href="mailto:paul@pauljones.id.au">paul@pauljones.id.au</a>>, "<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>><br>
Sent: Monday, 5 July, 2010 12:00:52 PM GMT +09:30 Darwin<br>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs<br>
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This is a self-inflicted one about 15 years ago.<br>
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In my junior years I used to strip telephone wires with my teeth before (re)terminating them. (Don't Ask, I now have a filling in that same place).<br>
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Trouble is This one day I did it and both wires touched my tounge.<br>
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That wasn't so bad, except at that instant a call came in and I got 50v across my tounge.<br>
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I have used appropriate tools ever eince.<br>
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S.<br>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs<br>
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LOL! I had a similar incident with an SCR the other day (been building custom power control circuits for our HVAC). Turns out reactive loads require snubber circuits. No boom but lots of pain :(<br>
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Any other electronics nerds on list?<br>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs<br>
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The best one I know of is a junior tech who started a job repairing high<br>
power amplifiers(+2kw). One of the senior techs found a good specimen unit<br>
that was beyond repair and took it apart and reversed the polarity on all<br>
the filter capacitors in the power unit. He then gave it to the junior to<br>
diagnose, with the instructions "BEFORE removing the case it is necessary to<br>
troubleshoot as far as possible, both as a safety precaution and to save<br>
time." - You can imagine what happened when the poor guy turned it on -<br>
KABOOM!! Needless to say it became a lifelong safety lesson as well as a<br>
funny story!<br>
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Paul.<br>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds<br>
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Best one we always used to do to juniors, was take them out on a phone<br>
system installation or somewhere that required patching (or that we could<br>
make require patching)... Then get them to "hold these two bare telephone<br>
cables and be a "marker", and tell them "don't drop them or lose them no<br>
matter what happens". Then the rest of the boys would head into the other<br>
room and call that phone line or extension... Was a great prank. Till one of<br>
the juniors packed a sad and called in Workplace Safety... Boo!<br>
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Dan<br>
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I'd like to hear more of these induction ceremonies.<br>
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Any funny junior stories floating around?<br>
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JG<br>
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On 05/07/2010, at 10:21 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:<br>
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Indeed... all part of the initiation to the industry.<br>
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And part of every junior tech/network engineers training is to cop a good<br>
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