Test Equipment Anonymous

Cats sometimes just clear off, probably to find a better billet. Sometimes they turn up on your doorstep out of nowhere. Occasionally cats which left years back reappear.

Mostly they are with you from when they are young. Now and then they come to an untimely end.

The basic point is that Astrid is a reclusive high functioning autistic person working in the depths of criminal records, with an encyclopedic grasp of "procedure". She leads a detective, Raphaellle, to realise new and old crimes are connected, and to spot the perps. The pleasure is the w...

Already found that website. seems a bit weird. He asks for other peoples info etc but doesn’t seem to share much like scans of brochures. They were pretty high up on the accuracy scale before quartz took over. Pendulum rod is invar for example. Robert. I'm not sure how the pendulum clocks used by p...

have never heard of these clocks. must be a totally brit thing. looks like a rabbit hole indeed! please keep us posted on the effect it has on swmbo. I don't think they were a totally Brit thing. They were used in factories and large buildings. Railways probably used them. Accurate time to within a...

Looks like I've opened up another TimeNut rabbit hole (wormhole?). Interest mounted as I read. A hydrogen maser! A caesium fountain clock! I read on. The master is a Gents Pulsynetic but I don't know the exact model. What a let down. Some TimeNut you turn out to be. Can't wait to see what turns up....

my plan for the 4th is to finish binge watching all 41 episodes of the jeremy brett sherlock holmes series on roku. my apologies to med for watching a brit series on the 4th. i promise to flip the bird to king george at the beginning of each episode. ps ok ok.....basil rathbone and nigel bruce were...

Enter "cat vs snake" into YouTube and there are numerous videos about how cats have faster reactions. There are also videos on how cheetahs are just big pussy cats.

Cats are wicked like that.

They also have other peculiarities, such as invariably choosing the most expensive and prized piece of furniture to sharpen their claws on. If they fish, they always pick the most expensive goldfish in the pond.

This is Dually. Dually was 5 years old. Key word.....was. His 9 lives got used up and it wasn't his fault. And I'm not happy about it. He was one of Blondie's daughter's 5 cats. She lives in a house on a corner lot next to an extremely busy road. All 5 cats are allowed outside. You know where this ...

Blair put down Major as "An analogue politician in a digital age". It sounded pretty good, but he obviously didn't know what he was talking about. As I said before, a flag went up for me when DAB was promoted as modern as tomorrow, the coming thing, and super kool. Whole radio programmes w...

I wondered what you'd been up to.

It seems strange to have to use a VPN to access this forum. Do the Oz authorities have it flagged as a subversive site spreading disinformation?

I find at The Other Place that the tone often gets needlessly rude and aggressive.

A video lamenting and questioning the wisdom of the end of three national radio services, including CHU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTiILHDfSI

It's just over five minutes long.

AVGresponding wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2026 7:47 am
Basically, it's utter shite, and the sooner it fucks off and dies, the better.

A succinct and accurate summing up.

We have SiriusXM satellite in the CR-V because Blondie likes her 1960's music. The audio quality while not stellar is acceptable. There are internet radio stations. https://internetradiouk.com/ Some of them are live. I recall listening a rock and roll station and then a blues station while painting...

I came across DAB about 20 years ago and noticed there was a definite attempt to push it. Radio programmes extolling DAB, where you could win a fabulous DAB radio, which was wonderful for all sorts of ill-defined reasons. The needle of my bullshit detector went FSD. Generally, if people believe a ne...

I came across this Youtube video on CHU. It's 8 minute 44 seconds long. I didn't realise it was such a long established station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZwGnob6ZdE

It's all about money. Follow the money. Operating even a single transmitter is expensive. Once upon a time, it was BBC credo that if there was a choice between a cost being borne by the broadcaster or the listener/viewer, then it should be borne by the broadcaster because that reduced total cost. T...

Sad. A lot of radio services are disappearing. In the UK BBC transmissions on 198 kHz will be ending on 27th June. This has been threatened for a year or two. Apart from broadcasting, it was used for other things such as controlling special tariff electricity meters and as a time standard. The frequ...

A colleague, who'd been an academic electronic engineer, told me of a talk given to students and staff by a peddler of oxygen-free copper loudspeaker cables, extolling their wonders. At the end someone said, "Are you presenting it for belief, that a signal that's passed at least 100 metres of o...

I wonder what people who run caesium beam clocks use for cables? It certainly won't be something they picked up at a swapmeet for a quid. These. https://verdantaudio.com/products/wireworld-platinum-eclipse%E2%84%A2-10-speaker-cable-pair?variant=42701378879586&country=US&currency=USD&utm...

I find this slightly disturbing. I'd assumed that if you feed a signal at say 10MHz from a source at 50R into a BNC cable and at the other end is an instrument also terminated at 50R, you get 10MHz out at the instrument. There may be some loss of amplitude, but there's no obvious reason why there sh...

I've been seeing some unexplained variations in the measured stdDev, so I'm reluctant to give figures at the moment. Those measures were very fast; 100 samples over 50s per orientation, with maybe 30s rest after changing orientation. On returning to the "0" orientation, the frequency and ...

No, I haven't cleaned contacts, measured cable capacitance, etc. I did consider adding a crude extra external buffer before driving the cable, but on reading the 10811 manual and playing around, I decided it was more likely to cause noise problems than to cure frequency variations. At this point li...

Picturing the quartz inside the OCXO as a wobbling bar, I can imagine that if it was horizontal and right way up up, or upside down, gravity would have an effect. On its side either way, or on its end either way, not so much so. Which way it was used I'd guess would have an effect on ageing. The eff...

I've opened an HP OCXO to replace a thermal fuse. You can get to it without unfurling the bits that shouldn't be disturbed but the outer metal skin needs to be removed. It's in a socket but that might just be to simplify assembly as a soldering iron would definitely open it. It's a very small wire-...