Any HAMs here?

[Ryan]

Pretty sweet. I'd by it for the wicked cool accessories: :wink:

Swivel belt clip (MB-83)

What chick wouldn't want me when they saw that bad daddy hangin off my waist?

EDIT:
Just noticed another handy accessory when you need a light but no one's around and all you have is your radio:

CP-19 CIGARETTE LIGHTER CABLE

[Oz]

well, if u jsut want to be more 'disc-jocky-ish', you could do online radio, but i have no knowledge of HAM...but I did eat some ham last week. :rotfl:

Oz~

[Zack]

Pretty sweet. I'd by it for the wicked cool accessories: :wink:

Swivel belt clip (MB-83)

What chick wouldn't want me when they saw that bad daddy hangin off my waist?

EDIT:
Just noticed another handy accessory when you need a light but no one's around and all you have is your radio:

CP-19 CIGARETTE LIGHTER CABLE

The cigarette lighter cable is for charging the battery pack from a car's lighter outlet. It IS a nifty accessory, although it's pretty standard with every handheld/mobile.

[Ryan]

heh I know what it's used for. I was just playing dumb. :wink: But what if it really was a lighter...

[DrV]

do hams still have to know morse code to pass the exams?

[urger]

The Technican level exam doesn't require it, but all others do.

[Zack]

Hey Urger.
Technician class is the first level of US amateur tickets, eh? Nifty. I wonder if New York is reachable on a little 50 watt 2m mobile transciever (I'm thinking of going a tad more powerful than the aforementioned 5 watt handie talkie). If so, we could be each others' first contacts.

[urger]

Cool, I'm usually on the New York Hall of Science equipment as WB2JSM. I'll be on the listen for ya.

[GordonSweet]

Although never been licensed I have been a member of Amateur Radio Clubs for over 40 years, and at present belong to the Hastings Electronics and Radio Club (UK). I act as their Publicity Officer, and to avoid upsetting the local paper by inserting (Free) Adverts on our Publicity site I have set up the first site below. The official site is the second one shown. I am shortly uploading all my working QB stuff to a separate page on my site which includes a Ham program - HANDY HAM PROGRAMS, WILLIS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS 1978, 5192 CRYSTAL DRIVE CHARLESTON W. VA. If you want it sooner email me at Gordon@gsweet.fsnet.co.uk

Meanwhile there is some working HAM stuff in BBC BASIC you may be able to convert to QB from:-

http://sionet.mysite.wanadoo-members.co....CBASIC.htm

Club Sites

http://g4cus.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

http://www.hastings-electronics-radio-club.net/

Gordon

[dilettante]

Connecting the plates of a capacitor via an external circuit that applies a potential (voltage) which one can think of as "pressure," electrons are pumped out of one plate, around the circuit, and into the other plate.

When you put two in series as you showed, as the plate of the one having electrons pumped into it by the external potential (battery here) becomes more negative, it "pushes" across the dialetric with its growing negative electrical charge and pushes electrons right out of the ever-more-positive plate and across the wire to the negative plate of the other capacitor.

At the same time the battery is "sucking" electrons out of that other capacitor, making the connected plate more and more positive, which leads to a positive field "pulling" across the dialectric there to suck electrons over that between-the-capacitors wire out of the other capacitor.


Crummy attempt to explain a crummy analogy, but the act of building those differing-charge fields across the capacitors will source and sink current flow until a balance is reached.

Another crummy analogy:

Think of a capacitor as a sealed, fluid-filled box with two highly elastic bladders or balloons inside that are also fluid-filled but the bladder skins isolate the in-bladder fluid from the in-box fluid. The bladders are the capacitor plates, and they have a nozzle or neck which is attached to a pipe or hose (wire).

Then think of the potential source as a "charged" capacitor you plumb into the circuit. Here "charged" means somebody had forced fluid into one bladder of the source (battery) while sucking fluid out of the second one, then closed valves on both bladders.

When you hook all three up with plumbing and open the valves, the elastic properties of the bladders and their state of fullness will push fluid around the circuit until it reaches an equilibrium.

Even if the charged "box" (battery, etc.) contains a lot of bladder fluid and has strong elastic to its bladders, a point will be reached where current flow stops and things balance or else the capacitor bladders may burst (dialectric break down).

So even though the bladder walls keep any fluid from passing through the capacitors, flow within the walled-off circuit segments takes place because of the hydraulic action going on in those boxes.