I am a simple hobbyist who is fascinated by electronics. I retired a few years ago and got my amateur radio operators license. I was a radio operator in the Army Signal Corp, so the general class test was a piece of cake. HF, propagation, Ohms law and schematics were things I had real world experience in, all I had to study were the FCC regulations. I aced the test.

After having my license for a couple of years, I decided to upgrade to the highest class-The Extra. Only about 10% of hams ever get to this level, so I figured it was worth pursuing.

For those of you not familiar with the amateur radio licensing system; it's all multiple choice and all the questions are in a pool including the correct answers. For the extra class, the pool is over 900 questions-50 of which would be on my test.

I reviewed the questions and quickly realized I knew very little about radio theory. I only had two choices to pass this test-learn electronics, or memorize 900 questions. I chose to learn electronics.

To that end, I signed up for a couple of electronics courses at our community college. I barely got through that experience with my sanity intact. Not only was I more than twice the age of the instructor, I was completely lost when it came to programmable calculators-I bought the recommended TI, but never took the time to familiarize myself with it, and that was a big mistake that had to be painfully rectified by an after class tutor.

Shortly thereafter, I took my extra class exam and passed with an 88%. Not what I had hoped for, but I was satisfied because I knew what I knew-I didn't guess or memorize.

I wish I had found this forum when I was studying for my exam (Mr Kuphaldt recommended it), I wouldn't have needed to attend those courses. I really want to thank everyone who maintains and contributes to this forum-I've learned so much from it.

I'm on this forum just for the love of learning.

 

Hi all, my name is Colin. I'm a carpenter and photographer that enjoys DIY gear projects. Typically old wooden cameras but recently have become very interested in automating some other projects with circuitry and electronic components.

This looks like a great forum, looking forward to looking through all the projects here and hopefully learning more about electronics, even if it's only to learn that I have no aptitude for it!

 

Hi everyone, I've been playing analog synthesizers for a long time (as a hobby), and have finally decided it's time to get a bit more serious about electronics so that I can understand how these beasties work, and hopefully start to build some useful circuits. This looks like a really helpful forum.

 

Hello guys and gals. I'm Alex, a DIYer with an affinity for creating. I don't have any formal training in electronics (heck, I don't know much about it at all...), but I try not to let that stop me. Not sure what else to add.

 

Hi everybody,
I am a person working as a marketing manager dealing with Real estate.
Little bit of electronics and mechanical as hobby(small projects) in free time.
hope to gain more knowledge from here.

 

Hey, I'm retired. Was a business owner (several, unique types). I took electronics in High School and promptly forgot it all ! Now, My wife has presented me with a challenge to create a simple circuit.
I'm determined to stay out of the doghouse.

 

Hello my name is Terrence and I am looking for a good school to study Biomedical equipment repair.

 

Hello all. I know almost nothing about electrical circuits, so have come here to learn. My greatest achievement to date is wiring up a set of LEDs in parallel and working out what resistor to use for each LED. Yup - that's as basic as it gets. I tried reading a "basic" guide to circuits relay switching and about all I understood was"and", "it's" and "the". I'm hoping you guys have some resources that will help me learn.
Dom

 

Briefly tell who you are.

I'm a senior student studying EE at UC Berkeley, specifically analog circuit design. B)

I am into electronics as a hobby. Recently I have put together a mini weather monitor. It measures Barometric pressure, temperature and humidity. All displayed on a glcd screen. Was a bit tough figuring out how to display a float on that particular screen. But I did it. Next is to have the monitor turn on and off my dew heater for my telescope. All controlled by an arduino. Might add a gps as well. Still room on the display.

 

May I know the Standards of overload capacity of bus bar distribution? Can anyone help me of this? If there are what standards? NEMA, IEEE, IEC, IEE, BS, JIS, PEC???

 

um duin ma national certificate in electrical power engineering............

 

Hi.
I'm new here ...

I have some electronics training in passenger vehicle electrical systems and diagnostics. I've probably forgot more than I remember...

 

Just joined. I'm just a frustrated old dude who likes to tinker. I'm working on getting my old Heathkit GC-1005 working again. It appears the capacitors all dried out and quit working. I hope to add my complete digitzed manual to the forum. I have two weather stations, one for the house and one for the farm. I also have an old Mitsubishi TV that took a lightning hit-there may be some hope for it.

 

Hello im zal, studies in bachelor of electrical engineering

 

Hello!!!
I'm new students in EE. I hope I can learn a lot from all of my senior
I'm so sorry to tell all of you, english is not my first language. That's why if I make some mistake, please don't mind me

 

Hello Everyone,

I am a hobbyist as a interest and system/embedded engineer as profession.
I am currently working on GNSS (GPS/GLONASS/BDS) chips firnware development.
and in past has working experience on IO device drivers (LCD, Touch, sensors, keypad) for samsung mobiles.

after finishing my work I likes to create circuits for enhancing my learnings and play with technology.
I have joined here to get help when I get stuck and to help when I know something from my past experience.

 

Hello im zal, studies in bachelor of electrical engineering

hope u gonna help mi wen i get stuck......

 

HelOo I'am New Here .. !!
I'am a Student Of MCs .. I Hope You all help me ..

 

Greetings

I am an Electrical Engineering: Electronics B-Tech Student studying at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) , RSA. Currently employed as a Quality Representative

 

Greetings

I am an Electrical Engineering: Electronics B-Tech Student studying at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) , RSA. Currently employed as a Quality Representative

I'am Msc Student 1st Smester .