Not really I like to live under the illusion that the country that gave us Karate, Ninjitsu, Judo, Samurai, JRC-2000, Nacamichi, Toyota and Fuji Heavy Industry would not have enough white trash lying around to partake in such things! You now shattered my illusions. I thought about using them at one point too but the price point is a bit high. For about $25-$50 more per device you can step up to LDMOS devices.
I do not think people that say "pill" are beneath me at all but it does sound just as ignorant as calling diabetes " a touch of sugar" or calling a transmission/engine mount a "dog bone" or a mirror close out panel a "shark fin" or an OIL fill cap a "710" cap. I also am not fond of capacitors being rated in "pufs". Trendy normally sounds stupid if some idiot decided to call the alternator on a car a telsa would you want your mechanic to start calling it a tesla just because some idiots on the street decided to call it that? Does "bump stick" sound better or more intelligent than camshaft? Part of being professional is mastering the words/vocab of your profession. Part of a hobby is mastering the words of the hobby. Electronics just like math has a set vocab and no matter if you do it as a profession or as a hobby the language does not change based on skill level or proficiency.
It is sad but try that people judge you by how you speak. You can be the smartest man on the earth but if you sound like an idiot that is how people will treat you until you give them some reason to listen. So if someone sounds like a back woods hick then that is what people will assume they are 7/10 times. Doctors, Lawyers, Nurses,Plumber's, Carpenters, Mechanics, Farmer's,Soldiers all have a language they speak that is unique to what they do. If they want to cross over from one area to another they have do it 100%. So if you went from being a Mechanic to being a Lawyer do you think the Bar Association or a Judge is going to cut you any slack on vocab and how you speak and procedures? Do you think other Doctor's would tolerate someone acting and speaking like they where still Plumber while practicing medicine? No. One standard not many.
Show me one published text book on electronics that refers to a bipolar transistor as a "pill" or a unit of capacitance labeled "puff's". I am a hack and I know it but I still try to be respectful to those that study electronics, electrical engineering, circuit design and try to use their vocab even though I mess up at times! Plus nothing ruins a good plan or obscures a problem like communication issues!
I just do not understand why anyone would want to sound ignorant and uneducated on purpose? IF you do not know better that is fine but once you do know better seems less than intelligent to cling to something you know to be wrong after you have been informed. It is like clinging to the idea that going out of the house with wet hair will make you sick once you know it is not at all true.
The operator is bound, as in tied to, a fixed frequency because it is determined by a crystal.
