[chirp_users] Chirp will not install

[Chuck Hast]

That is correct, you make sure you have done proper grounding
for YOU prior to dealing with the card. Usually after one scrub,
that was it. It was always new cards that needed that touch or
very old ones that has been setting in a machine in a grubby
environment. Obviously if you have to do it so much that you
rub the contacts down, there is something wrong elsewhere.


On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM Rich NE1EE <TheDustyKey at imaginarian.org>
wrote:

> I got the impression that the OP was "streaming" the thought. I suspect it
> meant that before working on computer internals, pay attention to operator
> grounding. My experience was that older edge connectors were subject to
> oxidation. Removing the device and rubbing the edge pins with a "genuine"
> rubber erase, which contains an abrasive (compare with the eraser that
> removes polymer lead marks), would scrub off the oxidation. Problem is that
> used aggressively it tended to wear right through the electrical coating on
> the pins.
>
> On 2023-10-21 14:10:-0400, you wrote:
> >How do you "ground" something with a rubber eraser?
> >DR
> >N1EA
> >
> >On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM Chuck Hast <<mailto:kp4djt at gmail.com>
> kp4djt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Doing proper grounding, the old trick used for years was a
> >proper rubber pencil eraser.
>
> 73 Rich NE1EE
>
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