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From: quodling@bunyip.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radio Electronics Descrambler
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.112229.1@bunyip.enet.dec.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 16:22:29 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.224950.7142@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU>, harrist@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Harris) writes:
> In article <1990Dec17.184710.28481@csn.org> tomf@boulder.Colorado.EDU writes:
>>
>>Has anyone out there built the Signal Descrambler from May of 1990's
>>Radio Electronics?  If so how well did it work?  This may have been
> 
.
> 	the one who really knows what he's doing).  My brother poked
> 	around the board with his finger and BAM, it locked up and was
> 	working pretty good but unfortunately when you unplug it you have
> 	to poke at it again to jump start it.  At that point we took it

I would say that either you have a bad solder joint and his poking nudged it
enough to come good, or There is a poor ground somewhere, and his finger
provided a better one...

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