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Virginia Beach Virginia Early Febuarary 2025
Early February 2025 looking across Lake James towards Regents University in Virginia Beach Virginia -
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Basic Electrical Circuit Analysis
Back to my Roots
I am going back to my roots. This is where I started back in the late 1960’s. Computers really were not a thing back then, at least for the hobbyist. Instead I had a box of electrical components and parts, a few of those plastic breadboards, and a really cheap multi meter to play with.
Besides bread boarding simple circuits, I used to also get the old Radio Shack P-Box kits which let one build some more complex items.
Eventually you move on to designing your own circuits. You don’t know what you are missing until you spend the day in a public library poring over parts specifications (no internet back then). Photo copiers were expensive, so you always brought along a couple of those black composition books and few trusty Number 2 Pencils.
It was always a rush when I got something I had designed to work the way I wanted it too.
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Iwo Jima Japan, in the Ogasawara Archipelago
Iwo Jima (Sulfur Island) Japan North West beach below the Old US Coast Guard LORAN Station, circa 1977.
