Sherlock Ohms: Beeping Oven Called for a Debugging

Sherlock Ohms is a regular feature of Design News that presents submissions from readers about troubleshooting challenges and how they were solved. This particular adventure reminds me of a very recent experience I had when troubleshooting a 1970s

vintage Snoopy telephone that I bought on eBay. The listing stated that it wasn't working, but I figured it wouldn't be too hard to fix. It turns out that the problem was not due to a bug - click on the thumbnail to see how it relates to the story "Beeping Oven Called for a Debugging."

Posted January 2013

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...