From: "Hans-Joachim Brandt" <hajo.brandt.dj1zb@t-online.de>
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Subject: LF: Re: Steckdosen-Amateur
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:08:57 +0100
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Dear all,

I was also wondering that PA0SE has used this german expression here which, as 
far as I can recall, had been created already in the sixties. "Steckdose" means 
wall socket, power point, mains outlet. A "Steckdosenamateur" is the same what 
in other languages is called an appliance operator or a radio amateur who just 
wants to "plug and play".

OK?

Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB


Rye Gewalt schrieb:
> For the benefit of a poor yank who only speaks one language and wished he
>  could
> speak several, what's the literal translation of "steckdose"?  I am always
> looking for derogatory names for non tinkers and view-grap engineers. I am
> soldering iron burns up to my elbows in spite of a (very old) degree in math.
> Somehow I like to smell the smoke.....
>
> Regards
> Rye
> K9LCJ
> Springfield, VA
>
> Dick Rollema wrote:
>
> > Uwe, DJ8WX, wrote:
> >
> > > Dick, where did you get that Wayne-Kerr-B.601-bridge from ?
> > > could one  purchase it somewhere?
> >
> > I have two Wayne Kerr admittance bridges:
> >
> > Type B601: 15 kHz - 15 MHz
> >
> > Type B801: 1 MHz - 100 MHz
> >
> > But my home made noise bridge performs almost as well. I took great care to
> > make it frequency independent and succeeded in doing so up to 30 MHz.
> >
> > I bought the Wayne Kerr bridges for little money in a war surplus shop and
> > at a rally of the Dutch Society for the History of Radio.
> > You can usually pick up older type of test equipment at rallies at low
> > prices because most  present day amateurs are of the "Steckdose" type
> > and are not at all interested  in measuring gear.
> >
> > I tested my bridges by connecting them to a 3 m long piece of RG213 type 50
> > ohm coax that was terminated by a 50 ohm resistor (actually two 100 ohm
> > resistors in parallel). That produces a standing wave ratio of 2 in the
> > cable. The impedance at the input of the cable was measured at a range of
> > frequencies up to 30 MHz. When the results are plotted on a RX-diagram they
> > must lie on a circle; the one for SWR = 2. For the Wayne Kerr bridges this
> > was indeed the case. But the deviation from the circle was also very small
> > for my home made bridge. Only 30 MHz near the measured impedances tended to
> > lie inside the circle for all three bridges. This was caused by the loss in
> > the coax that made the SWR < 2 at the input of the cable.
> >
> > > BTW.Dick, I just answered ur cq on 136 kHz. sri u did not hear my signal.
> > u
> > > where 559 in j043sv (ant: inverted V with 340m es 400m lws).
> >
> > A pity I did not hear you. Perhaps some other time?
> >
> > 73, Dick, PA0SE
>
>