{"id":36061,"date":"2025-01-31T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=36061"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:53:47","slug":"3-february-basic-fault-finding-and-basic-electronics-by-lee-aldridge-g4ejb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/tonight-at-eight-archive\/2025\/01\/31\/3-february-basic-fault-finding-and-basic-electronics-by-lee-aldridge-g4ejb\/","title":{"rendered":"3 February 2025 &#8211; Basic fault finding and basic electronics by Lee Aldridge, G4EJB"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sFuGtaaEEnM?si=sPlTgPPunDuu9B4p&amp;start=309\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>The presentation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Lee will look at the prerequisites of construction, as well as the pros and cons about different types of construction. Following this he will look at what to do when you\u2019ve built a project but it doesn\u2019t work, including method, understanding some simple circuits and basic use of a DMM, your expectations, and checking and testing.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About Lee<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">Lee spent close to 35 years working in telecoms and electronics, however he will be known by many radio amateurs as a technical author and editor. Lee wrote a mini-series \u2018Starting Over\u2019 then another mini-series \u2018Carrying on in a Practical Way\u2019 for Practical Wireless and was also the editor and contributor for RadCom Basics, before he retired in 2023. He continues to write articles for RadCom Basics, as well as spending some of his time \u2018tinkering\u2019 or constructing projects. He enjoys the technical challenges and getting projects working \u2013 most of the time! He still uses QRP CW and SSB.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Watch live<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Tonight@8 webinars are livestreamed for free on our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/theRSGB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/batc.org.uk\/live\/rsgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special BATC channel<\/a><\/strong>, allowing you to watch the presentations and ask questions online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presentation Lee will look at the prerequisites of construction, as well as the pros and cons about different types of construction. Following this he will look at what to do when you\u2019ve built a project but it doesn\u2019t work, including method, understanding some simple circuits and basic use of a DMM, your expectations, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tonight-at-eight-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36909,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36061\/revisions\/36909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}