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Offline Jono427

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2200 on: March 01, 2017, 12:51:43 am »
Hello from the USA!  Been messing with electronics for a while and lurking on eevblog/forums for a long time.  Finally getting around to actually building a good workspace, still in the planning phase.
 
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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2201 on: March 01, 2017, 11:28:12 am »
Hi there! I am Adrian from the Netherlands and an absolute beginner when it comes to knowledge and experience in electronics. I own some basic gear and a few arduino boards and just started experimenting with them. and it gives my a very nice experience, linking (basic) electronic theory with (small) real-life experiments in electronics and programming.. A lot to learn, just being a basic biochemst..

I really love Dave's enthousiatic dedication for the matter. Not his, but all the contributors on this forum and 'colleagues' on youtube.
 
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Offline Chig

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2202 on: March 03, 2017, 04:51:33 am »
Errr, hi? :)

Long time lurker... Decided it was time to be a bit more active here.

Been playing with electronics since i was a kid, started out with the Dick Smith kits, and never really looked back. These days i work as both an IT Systems Admin/Network Admin as well as communications system designer/engineer. I'm not uni qualified engineer (though i do have a selectoin of TAFE and industry qualifications) - just a job title which i'm not a big fan of, to be honest. More than a technician, though i do also have to do a lot of hands-on work as i'm employed for a relatively small company, so getting dirty is a bit of a requirement.

I work with copper, fibre and RF networks, pretty much of all types - Analogue/DSL, Ethernet, GPON, CATV, Large scale Wi-Fi, LTE, Microwave, etc etc. Mostly work on private networks and big business systems in remote areas (combination of City based and in the most remote areas of Australia). Partly due to my previous experience, and partly due to physical requirements (working as remote as i sometimes do) i have to know both the RF/physical side of systems as well as the software side, so being a "dual trade" for want of a better term, of both IT and Comms is a good fit. Jack of all trades, master of none, as they say. Handy to have a variety of skills when your nearest 'help' is over 1000Km away, if you even have phone or internet coverage ;)

Also a Ham radio operator, have been involved since i was a kid through my father, slowly studying for my advanced license... I could probably pass a test now if i went for it, but would rather be 100% confident walking into the test, and i'm not in a real hurry, i get a fair chunk of the spectrum and reasonable power output levels as it is as a 'standard' call. Wouldn't mind having access to more of the microwave frequencies, and bigger power for VHF/UHF DX work (where 6dB makes all the difference), however.

Wouldn't mind moving more into the comms side of the business, but the company i work for is an IT business first, Comms second. I've been slowly growing that side of the company where i can, but being only a small company, it's customer demand driven, rather than going out and actively pursuing the market.  Something more technical - and less IT - would be preferable, so we'll see how it goes in the coming years.

At home i like tinkering around with my radio gear, antennas, arduino gear and starting to get into home automation stuff too - next home i buy/build i hope to be able to do all the 'smarts' for it myself, particularly in terms of climate control, lights, power usage monitoring, etc. Most of what i'm learning on that side of things is working towards that goal. Oh, i also grow fish and vegetables in a closed loop (aquaponics) in my back yard too. That's tonights dinner ;)
 
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Offline razecus

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2203 on: March 03, 2017, 07:56:50 am »
Hi guys, I am just a guy who like to poke around with electronic components and electronic stuff around, i had started as a kid, but did not became my profession, but anyway i still love to build and repair stuff ( if i can ) . Lately i started to build valve amplifiers, from stuff i can get around, and try to sell them for charity.

Hey Dave i love your video, and admire your work you do, it is very educative thank you for all your effort!
 
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Offline ZomBiE80

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« Reply #2204 on: March 03, 2017, 02:11:40 pm »
Hello.
I'm Pete from Finland and i've been an electrics/electronics hobbyist for about twenty years now. I've studied electronics at trade school.
I have lots of experience in repairing and hacking stuff.
 
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Offline ohdsp

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2205 on: March 04, 2017, 12:29:12 am »
Hi all,

Registered a while ago but not posted... I am an Electronics Engineer and a hobbyist. Love the EEVBlog videos; many interesting topics and useful things that can be learned. Only 31 but been play with electronics since I was 8 when I got my first electronics kit. Love playing with, or fixing, audio based electronics, along with too many other hobbies!

Paul
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http://www.ohdsp.org
http://github.com/ohdsp
 
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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2206 on: March 04, 2017, 07:08:29 am »
Christian here. Recently got interested in doing some custom wiring in my car, so happened upon this forum! Hoping gain some knowledge and advice from its members. I have some small electrical background from highschool.. (does that count?) And was an IT internship at one point. Excited to be a part of the group!

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Offline coyote20000

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2207 on: March 05, 2017, 06:43:57 pm »
Dave from California,
Field engineer by trade but dabble in anything and everything as a hobby.
 
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Offline Distro

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2208 on: March 06, 2017, 12:23:11 am »
I've watched many of Dave's videos and decided to finally make my way over to the forum. Originally, I signed up with a specific question in mind and was going to post, but searched and found my answer instead. So I decided to introduce myself anyway. I like tinkering/hacking/fixing/breaking things and look forward to joining this community.
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2209 on: March 06, 2017, 05:32:06 am »
Hi, Matthew here. Worked in and studied electronics many years ago then got diverted into programming. Recently got interested in microcontrollers and fiddling around with electronics again.
 
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Offline yuzuha

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2210 on: March 06, 2017, 06:46:08 am »
Hi, I'm Pamela or just Pam.   
I'm a partially disabled retiree that used to program IBM mainframes. 

I dabbled in electronics in the 80s and built a shortwave radio kit.  Then my eyes went and I couldn't see much of anything but huge type on a computer screen and wound up without a job

Finally hit 65 (medicare) and got cataract surgery and can see better than I ever could before so I rummaged through the boxes in the closet and dug out my old copy of Joseph J Carr's "Mastering Radio Frequency Circuits" and Hakko 936.   Alas, I seem to spend most of my time watching EEVBLOG and Mr Carlson's Lab  :palm:
Pamela "Sue ikki
mi hatenu yume no
hotsure kana"
 
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Offline E Schnieder

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2211 on: March 06, 2017, 10:32:21 am »
Hey everyone!
I'm Eike, 16 years old and from the small town of Hude in Germany. Tinkering with electronics is my hobby, and next to school I'm a voluntary firefighter at our local fire department.
 

Offline KNSSoftware

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2212 on: March 07, 2017, 12:32:17 am »
I'm John

Been programming for 20 years, but decided i miss having something physical at the end of my creativity.  Not done EE since school, but getting setup for a midlife crisis hobby.
 

Offline jericho.ar

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2213 on: March 09, 2017, 02:27:38 am »
Jericho here!

I am changing careers and starting EE studies at the university. Have played a dual role as an analyst and repairing all kinds of guitar, mainly bass, gear from pre-amps to bass cabs and heads. Love all things electronic.
 

Offline suenrod

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2214 on: March 10, 2017, 12:34:12 am »
Hello to all.

My name is Rod, I'm new to the group and Dave's videos in general. I have been trying to watch a few vids a day and scan the forum.
I have been an RF technician since the early 80's but have been disabled since 2003 and not doing much repair since then so I'm pretty rusty.

I started learning electronics in jr. high school and joined the USAF as a 304X4 (AFSC) Ground Radio Communications Specialist. I worked on the voice/data communication system for the Titan II missile system. High power VHF & UHF multiplexed transmitters, associated receivers, decoders and control systems.

I'm an amateur radio (advanced class) operator (KD0XX) and General Radio License holder (PG-6-29404) My original novice call was WD4DPD but I upgraded to advanced while I was in the USAF and stationed in Wichita, Kansas and never saw the need to upgrade to extra class.
My primary interest is weak signal operations.


I guess that's enough of an intro.
Glad to be here and hope to contribute as the need arises.

Rod
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
 

Offline Gostek

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2215 on: March 16, 2017, 07:48:10 pm »
Hi guys,

Przemek here, born in Poland living in UK for the last 13 years.
Working as EE in acoustics and automatic test equipment. Design microphones, amplifiers, embedded systems.
Got two patents in acoustics.

All for now :)
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2216 on: March 17, 2017, 03:01:24 pm »
Hello, I'm Dumont.  Been an EEVBlog video watcher for years, just recently decided to start following the forums as my hobbyist involvement in electronics has increased again recently.

I have been a professional embedded software developer for almost 20 years now. Currently working for Digi International, makers of the XBee radio,  and have done things all over the map, but generally specialized in machine to machine communication (Serial, RF, Cellular, etc).

On the home-front I have dug into retro gaming machines to some detail. (I can claim the discovery of an obscure cycle timing errata on the GI CP1610 processor used in the Mattel Intellivision. :-) ).

I'll likely end up mainly lurking, as that tends to be my pattern, but will jump in when and where I can as the occasion arises.
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2217 on: March 17, 2017, 07:22:32 pm »
Welcome...
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Sue AF6LJ
 
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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2218 on: March 17, 2017, 08:17:35 pm »
Hey guys,

I registered back in 2014 but have only been lurking ever since... Figured I should finally introduce myself.

My dad ran his own electronics repair shop for almost as long as I'm old so I was exposed to electronics at young age, and of course got hooked quite badly.

Fast forward to present time and I work as a test engineer for a rather large company where some of my job resonsibilities involve researching, setting up and maintaining test equipment and systems in the fields of electronics, electro-acoustics and RF. They say you're never more than 3 meters (~10 feet) away from one or more of our products.

Much to my wife's dismay I suffer from GAS, but as long as the gear I bring home ends up in my man cave she doesn't complain too loudly as the kids love the stuff.


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Electronics Designer @ Thorntwig Technologies
 

Offline NA5WH

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2219 on: March 19, 2017, 05:12:48 am »
Ah was looking for this thread.. finalyl found it.

Anyhow.. hello, William from Miami.   
Been watching EEVBlog videos for a very long time.  I know I haven't watched since the original 1052E video, but it probably was sometime in that first year (I've been on youtube making videos myself since 2007, and no you don't want to see them, they have nothing to do with electronics (well unless you count electronic music).  No idea why I haven't bothered joining the forum until now... just felt right after seeing a deal via another youtuber, via twitter, back to here.... small world things...

Been into electronics since as long as I can remember. Father is an EE, and was in the whole computer thing when it was room-sized things.  I was more or less expected to learn about computers, "as it was the future" he used to say... and .. yeah.. it was... 

Obviously that drifted into ham radio as a way to utilize that hobby etc. 

Although I guess more strongly motorcycling has been the main time pull. But then I moved to Miami.   Oh, I hear it now "but its 70F-80F (21C-26C) year round, why don't you ride more!?"  Well I have more than 3000 miles below freezing riding under my belt, so temperature doesnt matter to me. Its this whole 5000people/square-mile thing, combined with the ... I'm not sure if these people even understand traffic laws aspect. (Miami has many 1st-2nd generation americans, a lot of people from NY/NJ, people with more money than care, and retired people.... doesnt bode well for the traffic laws here...  turn signals are a sign of weaknesss... I just dont trust them at all with my life).

Anyhow, thats led back to electronics to occupy my mind...  and so here I am.

Work primarily in radiation safety (ionizing primarily, but lesser in RF and laser), with general responsibility for safety over-all for approximately 1200 associates for a medical device manufacturer. 

Have a great day!
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2220 on: March 23, 2017, 12:55:03 am »
Hello!
 My name is Tommy Ryner, And I am currently a sophomore in high school. I have had an interest in electronics for a while, and have been watching many YouTube videos on the topic, as well as reading some books. I have been watching Dave's videos for about two years now, and have decided to make an account on the blog.(I'm glad I did!) I love to save electronics from the curb, such as TVs, Amplifiers, etc. I will either repair it and use it myself, or, in the case of a TV, I will de-solder the components. This has helped me understand electronics better, as well as collect a good number of components. I also buy stuff from goodwill to use. Other interests: bike riding, weather, and environmental sciences. Since I do not have a proper computer (This is my school owned chromebook) I can not really model or even program arduino. :( Location: northern Illinois.
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2221 on: March 26, 2017, 08:42:03 am »
Hi, my name is Gregg and using the words of a friend, "I collect hobbies".  So I have been in sysadmin/devops/software developer for 10 years on, and partially chose coding as a hobby because it is a quiet hobby.  I also did some hobby machining, mostly making chips and occasional useful items..   Saws, mills, these all scare my wife as I am not the most coordinated person, and fingers are hard to replace.   While I want a lathe next, she would rather I have a safer hobby.  I've wanted to get into electronics since working for my uncle one summer 20 years ago..

So... A few weeks back, I stumbled on a Tek T922 in Weird Stuff electronics, and I have occasionally needed a scope fixing things or whatnot, but never had one.  It as $35 and seemed to work.  So I got it home, one channel works fine, the other probably needs cleaning.  That night I gazed upon our household AC via a 110AC -> 12VAC wall wart and was mazed.  I can see the power.   :box:     I decided right then, "adding electronics to my hobby collection", waking up the 'you should finally learn electronics, stop putting it off'.  So I gorged on some oscilloscope video's, got some power supplies off CL (have needed those too for bench testing doo-dads), and just bought some Arduino stuff.  The machining ill be relegated to support for now, not the end game as was before.   Lathe will have to wait.
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2222 on: March 27, 2017, 02:55:37 am »
Hi!

I'm Michael, originally from Austria. I finally registered on the EEVBlog forum! Long time viewer of the videos!
My electronics career started in very early years, my dad had electronics as hobby and so I spent long days in his shop since I can remember. Molded by this, I visited a highschool for electronics & telecomination technology followed by studying physics with the focus on semiconductor and solid state physics. After that I moved to Orlando, Florida to work in an RF semiconductor company.
Here I am now, working on getting my lab set up, since the last years where spent fixing up a house that I and my girlfriend bought and lots of other activities. As soon as I have this I will post photos.
BTW, I'm also a licensed ham radio guy (W4MFT), since about a year now, I think.

Let me know if there are questions!

BR,
Michael

P.S.: Dave thanks for all your videos! It is a joy to watch them. Great job, keep it up!
W4MFT
 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2223 on: March 30, 2017, 04:50:04 pm »
I am Eric and I found the EEVblog youtube channel years ago! Wanted to buy a multimeter and found the chart here in the forum; signed up and I am happy to discuss all kinds of topics with like-minded folks.

 

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Re: New Member, Please introduce yourself
« Reply #2224 on: April 06, 2017, 04:06:54 pm »
Hello! I'm Dustin from Amelia Island, FL. I'm interested in increasing my knowledge about electronics in preparing myself to homeschool my children in science and technology. I've done a ton of home renovations and have done lot's of construction related diagnostic and electrical installation type of work like testing air conditioner capacitors, basic electric motor troubleshooting on air compressors, etc. But I am looking forward to getting an oscilloscope and digging into the function and design of some more complicated circuits!

I'm very green, so I'm looking forward to soaking in the vast amounts of knowledge on the site! I have been enjoying the EEVblog videos on youtube already!
 


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