Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

["G.W. Haywood" <debian-bugs@jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Martin McCormick wrote:

> My thanks to all those who theorise that it was this particular
> drive's time to die.  It is several years old and I was thinking
> along the lines that the rest of you were thinking.  One thing I
> haven't done yet is to see if the clock crystal  that drives the
> internal usb controller is still active.  I am not sure what
> frequency it should free run on but one can sometimes hear the
> clock on a general-coverage short wave radio receiver or
> scanner-type receiver.
>
>         What one hears is a signal that usually sounds like a
> continuous carrier with no modulation.  It's there when the drive
> is powered up and goes away when the drive is disconnected.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin
> WB5AGZ

Come on WB5AGZ, you know better than that.  You can't hear a
continuous carrier with no modulation.  You can only hear the result
of mixing it with something. :)

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73,
Ged,
MSEG3