Wayne Holmes @cwh050@qoto.org

@freemo many years ago, when I was doing repairs, we sometimes had to add wire jumpers onto boards (back in the day when a lot of glue logic was used and that was a way to fix bugs). For this we had to use teflon coated ~28AWG stranded wire and used this tool for stripping https://www.weller-tools.com/eu/gb/precision-tools/products/tweezers/29w30. You would put the wire in the jaws and spin the tweezers around until it pierced the insulation then pulled. I would not use this tool for anything else though ...

Some questions are not easy to answer satisfactorily. https://bit.ly/3sfd4bw

According to a user survey on my Blog, 30% of respondents intend to retire in 10 years. From the companies they work at, only 40% have an apprenticeship program. According to the article, in Germany only 3% of school leavers choose to study electrical engineering. Only a few Universities in Germany offer a curriculum that if sufficiently RF orientated. All in all, this means that there are fewer entrants than veterans.

@freemo the times I've stripped thin wires only to discover I've taken most (sometimes all) of the strands off together with the insulation.

When at your next #hamradio meet, count how many teenagers there are (voluntarily)? Ask a few people if they've built any of their equipment? If you have teenage children, bring them with and ask their opinion. See my point about connecting with the target market?

A collaboration between the DARC and VDE is the lead article in the September edition of CQDL. The intention is to drive interest in electrical engineering amongst the youth by using #hamradio. I think the idea is great but am worried about the practicalities. I fear that there is a huge disconnect between their target market and their image.

Gone …

One small social media update https://bit.ly/3L9JeMv

Two questions about DDMS. https://bit.ly/3s6Z7wf

Some like it hot!

Anecdotally, 5G on my iPhone is slightly better downstream but significantly better upstream, than EuroDOCSIS 2.0 + 802.11ac Wi-Fi.

You put your Handshoes on …

I just need to get something off my chest: Google Docs is just %&!' awful. 😡

Ugrading to Capacity Max - what kind of server does one need?

A curious problem...

Des, der, den and dem all find their right place (most of the time). 😜

Erdnuss Flips don't taste that bad after all.

@bonifartius Agreed! And, if I may promote a local company, it has to be Selters, medium.

I wrote a short article on LinkedIn about what I think the office of the future should be.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/office-future-wayne-holmes

Your thoughts?

You look for their yellow bin when visiting anyone abroad.