Test Equipment Anonymous

Enigmas have been in more than one museum we visited this vacation. None of the museums visited, however, have the same depth and quality of their Enigma collections as can be found at the museum of FRA, the Swedish sigint authority. That museum is very hard to get into; it is strictly by invitation...

It works, as far as I can tell. A bit of strange behaviour in the modulation section, but that might be down to cleaning switches issues. I'm playing with the ScopeMeter as verification, so probably should set the B channel input on that as trig source and take the sync out on to there. Yeah, it mo...

Not yet tried to power it on, but that will come today. 99% of the cancer in those can be cured by cleaning the modular switches at the top of the front panel. I've had 3 and none of them had any issues apart from that :lol: It works, as far as I can tell. A bit of strange behaviour in the modulati...

A good bag. That seems like a very low price. HP kit of that era was beautifully made. Indeed it is. Jammy git territory, providing it works. Best part is it was in-country, so shipping included it still barely reached £60. Function generators with any degree of sophistication, (at least sweep) and...

Powered the 3312A up. Did it on the kitchen table so haven't tested it thoroughly, only having a Fluke 8060A to measure with. It produces AC voltage the frequency and amplitude of which can be manipulated, the PSU adjustments (17,1V, within 50mV on positive and negative rail) are OK, and I don't get...

https://vvv.besserwisser.org/Public/Bilder/tea/3312A-inside1.jpeg Another major goalpost in my acquisition plan has been reached. [( hp )] 3312A, Israeli tank brake block past (also some productive past at a radar manufacturer in the same country) -- bough BIN for 400SEK on local auction site. It d...

They do it because they enjoy it. This sums it up, I'm sure I'd enjoy scratch building a steam engine, too. I'd end up picking up lots of skills I wish I had Here too. I find I can fabric-cobble things just because I've been tinkering a long time. Bodges are a special talent here. The vortex vanes ...

We are considering Faroe islands, and Iceland. There's a ferry from Hirtshals in Denmark, that does go to both. Not cheap.

Is there someone selling those as a sticker?

If not, I will make a run. We have a very good sticker supplier here, that I've used a couple times.

It's tempting and I've used the dishwasher before to clean parts but I worry that the open frame power transformer won't like it. I'll come up with something to clean that PSU. I've only ever gone to putting keycaps from keyboards in the dishwasher. The original IBM Model M and the Sun Type 5 keybo...

Very, very nice. I have a TM503 but with the low distortion sine generator and the distortion analyser, complete with IM analytics option. Quite handy.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:31 am
One of my cars had 16 forward gears and 4 reverse gears.

I've driven such constructs too. Once through central Vienna, nearly with police escort. I do have a truck and bus license. We use the very Swedish expressions "split" and "range" to describe the two extra gear boxes.

So true on this side of the pond. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/I4keXw.jpg I should make one with 6 fwd positions for mine. Lots and then some youngsters here get automatic-only licenses; all hybrids and electrics are automatic or gear-free. The joke would transfer well on here.

Robert wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 9:47 am Standard light designs, often from component makers like Lucas were used on many different cars.

And there was Darkness.

Can I bequest to my ex, since she got a portion of my retirement pension, that she go shit in her hat? :lol: This is alien to me. If I were to divorce my wife, which I do not plan to, we'd split our things, and then be done. I'd have to make sure that the costs for children under 18 were shared, bu...

bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:00 pm I would pay for a TV license if I didn't have something better to do...

Were you a resident of this country, you could not escape it. Everyone pays. Period.

I get my salary from the Public Service Fee -- I work at the Swedish Public Service broadcaster. I of course think we have a reason to exist, and that we need to have a sensible and stable financing and governance model. Further, I think we're more needed than ever, and that our mission needs reinfo...

Zenith wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:06 pm
What's that building in the background that looks like a sawn off lighthouse?

It's the Moulin Noir, a lesser-known upstate NY landmark most remembered for being haunted by the unresting ghosts of slain tube rapists.

I have chaos. Having said that, I've made an effort to make a central repository for my electronically stored manuals. My distributed file system (think of a NAS but for grownups with too much time on their hands and a desire to do sysadmin work.) has a volume for them; it currently stands at 3816 M...

Regarding the "same acoustic space" concept, what is the "correct" sound in a concert hall? Sounds from two sections of the orchestra will have a different phase/delay on one side of the hall to the other side. Which is "correct"? Which is "incorrect"? To the...

I'm all for the "minimal intrusion" school. What Atkelar did to the 410C was in part reasonable, in part ever so slightly over the top. I told him as much -- the transformer rewinding was what was required, but the power inlet replacement would have been better with a Schurter C6 -- which ...

OK, so you delay the "local" A stream until the "remote" B stream has arrived. Or, rather, there are two remote streams, that arrive via different paths having been sampled in the same acoustic space. When they arrive, we must play them in phase. What happens if you also need th...

Given the right hardware, and a lot of legwork, we can lock two clocks into fractions of a µs over long distances. Which is a requirement we actually have. Locking clocks like that I can understand. But what might it mean w.r.t. agreeing the time? (.... refers to Leslie Lamport's partial ordering) ...

So far, I am more than happy to trust this counter as my "frequency reference". Probably closer than anything else I have by at least an order of magnitude. Which is good and all, but it is not just right! I have a few counters (like, many) and they're all a bit temperamental left to thei...

Strange. Wool is probably my favourite clothing material. As I have passed half a century in age, I tend to feel cold a lot more. Synthetics only work so far. Then, of course, it's probably mostly the more esoteric wools like Merino that attract me.