Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell wrote:
?
? Our engineers already knew the proper names. After all, some of
? the parts had been in the inventory database for over 30 years.
? They had about 40 variations in the stockroom. We used quite a
? few with coaxial inserts, since we built modular microwave
? receivers.

You were lucky. I was push into microwave radio in the 1990s when the
smart old guys were leaving and and a younger group was replacing
them. There's a lot of hands-on detail to learn in that business!


There are definitely a lot of tricks to that trade. Things that HF
designers had no clue about. They were put to work on the IF and video
stages.

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