Got the PPS-85A fired up this afternoon, extracted all the large LED displays along with the four small yellow ones and soldered in some new blue Kingbright readouts.
Was hoping my shipment of 2mm LEDs for the VFO A/B indicators would arrive today but it wasn't to be...so I'll hold off on the readout board swap in the Omni VI until I get them and finish the rework.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Instead of the common red, blue, amber, or green display, I'd probably go with a mauve or a paisley. Just sayin.....................
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
Blue looks more modern but 4500K white is nice too.
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
Here's the completed display. I was hoping to make both the RIT offset and clock sub-displays both green, blue or green and blue, but an HDSP7403 (yellow RIT readout display) isn't interchangeable with the HDSP7804 used in the clock portion - and no one is stocking a 0.3" common-cathode version of this readout in blue. But I'm patient and have another board to experiment with.
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"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
drool ...
I've enjoyed island life for 17 years. That's 13 years more than the Confederacy was around.
RIP Albi
When do you tell a woman you're a ham?
It's a jungle out there. Many EQ stupidly with poor articulation.
~TKX
YIAH
"And, of course, the Gym Teacher being his usual self."
W3WN
"The enablers ride on the top of the pile."
WZ7U
If you listen carefully to the picture above, you'll hear "Dance Monkey Dance".
:monkeydance: :monkeydance: :monkeydance: :monkeydance: :monkeydance:
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati