Subj : Bluetooth Keyboard
To   : Ed Vance
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Sep 06 2024 06:54:00


Hi Ed!

 EV> Barry, You mentioning Polarized or Nonpolarised plug caused me to
 EV> recall a shocking experience I had one night after coming home
 EV> from work.

 EV> My first Shortwave Receiver was a Hallicrafters S-38E.
 EV> It is a AC-DC set that didn't have a fuse in it so I bought a
 EV> Nonpolarised Plugthat has places on it where I could insert a
 EV> fuse for each side of the line
 EV> My younger brother saw that my radio had the AM Band on it and
 EV> would listen to a Radio Station that had Disk Jockies who talked
 EV> really crazy on the air. I didn't care for that Station at all
 EV> and told my brother not to use my HAM RADIO on that Station.
 EV> He listened on my radio anyway, and the way I found out was that

You expected your brother to follow your orders?!! <g>

 EV> night I heard a CW station calling CQ.
 EV> I had the finger of my left hand on the Receive/Standby Switch
 EV> and when I beganto turn the knob on my Transmitter to the
 EV> Transmit position I felt a electricshock. (The transmitter was
 EV> Grounded).

Oh-oh!....

 EV> That happened because the room only had one Duplex Outlet in
 EV> which I had my Receiver and Transmitter plugged into both of the
 EV> outlets. My brother had his own AM Radio and had unplugged my
 EV> receiver to listen to his radio that night and switched the plugs
 EV> back where my radio was plugged in.
 
To be fair to your brother you did say don't use your Ham radio!  And 
although being a little sneaky he probably would not notice the slight 
bend in the cord as it comes out of the plug due to positioning of the 
cord.

 EV> After that happened I painted the top side of my Nonpolarised
 EV> Plug with some model paint so he could always replace my radios
 EV> plug correctly after he finished listening to his radio.
 EV> AND I always looked down at that Outlet before beginning to get
 EV> on the air to make sure I saw the painted side of that AC Plug.
 
And so the story eands happily: your brother gets to listen to his wacky
disk jockies and you don't get zapped.


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