multimeter that has a transistor test socket for hfe testing

[tom]

I just bought a multimeter that has a transistor test socket for hfe
testing. My PNP transistors it says are 180 or so, and that sounds right,
assuming it's some kind of 'gain' measurement. But all of NPN transistors
it says have values of 1 or 2, or in case, 3. I'm sure I'm putting the
right pins in the right holes, I still have the pinout diagrams that came
with the transistors, so there's no mistake there, and the holes are clearly
marked on the multimeter... When I check the NPN ones that the hfe tester
says have an hfe value of 1 or 2, they all have normally biased junctions
when tested with the old 'pretend its a diode' method. So I dont know what
to make of this. Can anyone give me some advice on this?


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73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[tom]

I see this is a serious issue for you --- would you like to explore this
further?

 

[tom]

Are you a troll?

 

[tom]

What's it like being a troll?

 

[tom]

The pinout diagram on the package the transistors came in turned out to be
wrong --- the issue has been resolved.

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73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[tom]

Why don't you find a newsgroup that is more suitable for you to express your
gushy, emotional opinions about cartoons and nazis? Try
alt.voip.opinions.gushy or somesuch.
This group is for electronics.

SKYPE ID:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver
SKYPE ID:

 

[tom]

I know you're an ignorant asshole! But what am I? Nyeah nyeah!
Your turn.

 

[Rich Grise]

I know you're an ignorant asshole! But what am I? Nyeah nyeah! Your
turn.

A 7-year old troll wannabe?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[tom]

You're stupid!

 

[tom]

I know you're a stupid, annoying windbag --- but what am I? Nyeah nyeah!
Isn't this fun? Betcha sooner rather than later you're gonna bail out and
go watch some cartoons.

 

[tom]

I know your a cartoon creature, but what am I? Nyeah nyeah.

 

[tom]

NO! Your mother was even stupider! So there, nyeah, nyeah!

 

[tom]

I know you're childish, but what am I?
Nyeah, nyeah!

 

[tom]

Aaah, I knew you were some kind of undesirable, but I had no idea you were
an informant, one with either multiple personalities or maybe a
apeworm --- "So, what should we do? Rat him out ..." Go ahead, all one
of you, if informing is your thing, then have at it, see how far you get.
Oh, and if you had actually read my posts to that thread you would have seen
that I was the one advising the OP about how illegal those 'phones' are, and
I cited a recent case somewhere on the east coast where a chinese restaurant
got a many-thousand dollar fine --- duh, what's it like John.
Sorry I had to forgo posting to this thread for a few days, I had other
things to do, but I'm back now. I find it hard to believe you're a
professional circuit designer, John --- police informant, no problem,
apoplectic and hysterical, absolutely. But professional circuit designer?
Get out of town.
Oh yeah, I do have a picture of the package of transistors showing the pins
reversed, and I could post it, but I'm not going to because then it be like
I need to prove something to you, which I don't. Even if I did post it you
probably couldn't view it anyway because you probably use one of those
dumbed-down HTTP interfaces to NNTP that don't permit binaries.

73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver
SKYPE NAME

 

[tom]

Wrong again, on all points. You are the one who keeps replying to me, and
who finds it impossible to stop replying. Remember how this started?
Probably not. I'll refresh your memory. I posted a question about testing
transistors and you responded with some kind of meaningless, irrelevant,
'drop the skype name' nonsense. If you have no relevant, usefull
information, why post at all?
Also, like I said, if you had actually the read the scanner-group posts I
made, I was the one telling the OP these devices are illegal, yet you are
incapable of understanding that --- saying I must be insane because I'm
illegally using my radio?!? Where does this illegal use of a radio
accusation come from? Any idea? How can anyone be that blind to facts in
front of their face?
You must come from some kind of abusive environment where everyone calls
everyone else stupid, I'm even getting sucked into your mindless, reflexive
"you're stupid" vortex of dysfunctionality.
Just out of curiosity, can you access binaries?

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73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[tom]

I was trolling, hah, you're the one who started the ball rolling with a
meaningless drive-by comment about skype. You consider an unsolicited
drive-by relating to a means of reaching an OP as relevant --- wow.
I find it revealing that you would assume that I find your posts to be
threatening. Pathetic, yes. Unfortunate,. definitely --- but threatening?
Why on earth would anyone find you or your feeble-minded drivel threatening?
And why would 'control' even be a factor to begin with? Your personality
structure becomes more sharply defined with each successive post --- clearly
you not only come from some kind of abusive environment where you're called
stupid, but control, or more precisely the lack thereof, is evident.
Have a nice day, John.

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73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[tom]

How many hours did you spend on this so far John --- how many hours spent
sweating away with a thesaurus and dictionary? Hah! Not once has it taken
more than, literally, a couple minutes for me to bang off a reply to your
insipid, feeble-minded, ramblings.
Your capacity for self deception is the only thing remarkable about you ---
you have really managed to convince yourself that you're behaviour is
appropriate and correct. This is a group for people to dicuss electronic
related topics, not the nature of skype cartoons and how bad they are.
Oooooh, thum thar skype cartoons they're like thum nazis. Hello? Is this
alt.gushy.notnice.cartoonopinions ?
There, can't be bothered doing any more than that. It's not even worth
reading, I'm sure nobody will read it, and nobody will feel rushes of
horrible nazi-skype-cartoon triggered emotions and then 'nobody' will spend
the rest his evening exercising his capacity for self deception and speedy
dictionary lookups --- have a nice evening Nobody.


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73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[tom]

"Blow me" ? OK, let's go there --- I was thinking perhaps we could at least
keep a semblance of maturity in this, however, that is clearly not to be. I
kind of figured you for a homosexual as soon as you got all hot about those
terrible, not-nice skype cartoons. "Tsk, tsk, they're like nazi's, it's so
terrible --- oh please, get rid of them!". Not that there's anything wrong
with being gay, but in your case, and only in your case, there is something
wrong with it, and terribly wrong at that, but only because it's you, John.
So, John, the little homosexual 'circuit designer' --- design any good
circuits lately? Or have you been too busy seeking anonymous, gay sex
encounters over the internet? Blow you? I'll BET you want me to blow
you --- fag. That's gotta be your most moronic response yet, but there'll
be more, and whichever way you turn, I'll beat you in that direction, too.
You should try sex with women, if you can. But of course you can't,
probably even if your life depended on it. I guess it has something to do
with your relationship with your mother, the cheapest, train station whore
that she is. Or maybe it was due to your experiences during that prison
sentence you served, probably for stealing panties or some kind of
disgusting sex offence --- and how you became a passive, raped prison bitch,
you underwear-sniffing piece of pee-hole dandruff. Your mother was a whore
for a pack of lice-ridden, flea-bitten, mangy mongrel dogs --- and you are
the love child of the omega male mongrel dog and the dog-pack's whore.
Furthermore, you were born premature and retarded, and spend all day sucking
stinky dicks. Even normal, regular fags shun you because to have sex with
you would be like throwing a wiener down a hallway.
How does it feel to be always one-upped like this? You say, "blow me", and
in return you get a half paragraph of the same, ridiculously infantile
drivel, but more creative and original. I can even do infantile sex-drivel
better than you, duh, blow me. What the **** is that? Brain dead mongoloid
idiots can do better than that.
You remind me of an abused animal who keeps coming back and licking the hand
that is abusing it when you ask me to have sex with you, instead of, at the
very least, coming back with any kind of decent insult, you child of a
mangy, omega dog's whore!

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73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[tom]

That would be the kind thing you choose to wonder about, wouldn't it?

73
Tom
VA7FAB
Skype Name:
va7fab_tom_in_vancouver

 

[Richard the Dreaded Libertarian]

Sensing that there was something wrong with this "tom" maggot,
(especially since he turned off his dotsig when he started feeling a
little heat,) I decided to do a little checking and found that he's
been posting to de.alt.radio-scanner. Specifically, to the
"Long Range cordless: legal in US" thread.

Check it out.

It seems like all the little prick wants to do is to have cellphone
access, in the boonies and at his convenience, to the Canadian and US
PSTN by using frequencies which are allocated to other services and he
wants to use them illegally for his own purposes. Since he's an
amateur and, through his demonstration of basic proficiency in the art
has been given/has paid for a call sign, and has signed up for staying
legal, his actions are contrary to the terms allowed in his contract.

So, what should we do? Rat him out to the Canadian and/or the US FCC?

Yup. If he's going to be an unidentified emitter screwing around with
military communications over a protracted period of time, he needs to
be stopped.

LOL, not that the military couldn't detect his transmitter, zero in on
it and, with proper permission if they considered it a threat, blow it
away.

Uh, isn't there supposed to be some rule against using military force
against citizens?

Thanks,
Rich