Test Equipment Anonymous

And what does everyone think of "Muse" just launched by Meta (Facebook)?

Given Facebook's lousy record of handling personal info I'm not going to give any AI bot my data. And I can't wait for the lawsuits that follow once data gets in the hands of hackers. Gonna be a shit show.

I've just wasted ten minutes trying to tell Mr Bozo's store that "Parcel was handed to resident" was a lie and that it was abandoned on the door step, only discovered because of the email claiming "Handed to resident." I got an idiot AI that claimed to "understand the frust...

Most times my finger is my "thermal camera".

Atkelar does not approve! :D https://www.youtube.com/@atkelar/videos I'm confused. Why not approval? :?: Atkelar likes to take things apart. Very apart! Oh OK, got it. Did some searching on Ebay for Sony FM stereo adapters and found this. Not interested in purchasing. https://www.ebay.com/itm/11743...

BU508A wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2026 4:26 am

MED6753 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 11, 2026 7:16 pm I don't relish trying to take that assembly apart. So let's try some deoxit first.

Atkelar does not approve!

https://www.youtube.com/@atkelar/videos

I'm confused. Why not approval?

OK, It's not TE but it's my "go to" radio in the lab... It is equipment for testing signal strength and atmospherics. And the dimensions of your wallet! Blimey, $110 in 1975 is nearly $700 in today's money! https://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cstartingamount1=110&cinm...

OK, It's not TE but it's my "go to" radio in the lab and a rainy day project. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/923/fRKHpV.jpg It's hard to believe that it's 51 years old. Purchased in 1975 from a now defunct Lafayette Radio for the princely sum of $110 USD. I bought it on a time pay...

Related. IMHO the most iconic, famous, and instantly recognizable rock song intro is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0&list=RDnrIPxlFzDi0&start_radio=1 It's subjective of course but for me me it's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Atiz3PgCM Jack Bruce and Pete Brown h...

As an old fogey, I'd point out that the pop/rock of today is rubbish compared to that of the 50s to 80s. So there's no incentive for quality reproduction. And in the race to the bottom in cheapness, a lot of current recordings are of poor technical quality even before reaching the bottle neck of MP...

Blondie sez my lab is a hoard. Tell her she's never seen a hoard. From the photos you have a modest and well-ordered collection. I've seen a three story house with the cellar and each floor packed with communication receivers. I bought a couple of them. There was a huge Marconi diversity receiver a...

Gee Pat, you need....ahem....more space.

For the moment, I'm going to enjoy the novelty of being able to move around without stubbing my toes. When you walk in the country, you see barely marked paths on the grass or leaf litter, caused by wild animals repeatedly following the same path on their perambulations. My house is like that; cons...

The lab has been mostly idle during the Summer months but now that Autumn is here I have 2, and possibly 3 items that need repair and I'll be posting details.

tggzzz wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2026 6:09 pm

nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2026 2:50 am so who broke the first thread?

We all did - by reading the posts!

Is it broke for good or can it be fixed? Would hate to lose all those posts.

I've got some stuff lined up for Fall when the weather is cooler. Even with A/C running a boat anchor can get uncomfortable.

gnif is some sort of IT professional, like a DBA or something. Definitely not a professional Moderator, in fact more like an Unprofessional Moderator. "Professional" is an elastic and much abused term. e.g. a "professional quality angle grinder", costing about £20 and unlikely t...

Shame they went and used a pile driver on a fly. -Pat What's worse, as I understood it, it was done on the prompting of someone with about 40 posts - basically a passer-by. Anyway, that's been four years ago. Yes, 4 years ago but I'm still pissed about it. I was called a "bad actor" by on...

I was a moderator for three years at diyAudio; it required a good deal of delicacy and we found that a gentle warning was most effective. So I doubt if there's really a "slash and burn". But I haven't looked closely; I don't waste my time watching playground arguments. I do notice that th...

It's August. Must be that time of year when the mods come out of hibernation and start their slash and burn. Which is why I'm here and not over there.

I've considered that, but never wanted to find out how easy it isn't to cancel. VirginMedia is appalling in that respect, to the point of being fined £28m! https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/switching-provider/ofcom-fines-virgin-media-28m-for-repeatedly-preventing-customers-from-cancelli...

We just have to pick and choose what services to subscribe to because it can get real expensive. That's the problem, even with the range of programmes available OTA with Freeview. I see reviews for quite a few programmes I might like to watch, but I'm not paying a subscription without being sure. A...

In the days of analog TV picking up NYC TV stations here was no issue with a decent antenna. But since the conversion to digital those signals don't reach as far so we are in a complete dead zone for over the air signals. So our only choice is subscription services over the internet. I have 500Mb co...

I thought I was the only one having problems accessing this site as well as others. And it refreshed with a bunch of unread posts.

Question for my fellow Brits. I noticed that most British homes have a Yagi type antenna on the roof. Is this for local HD broadcasts? And if so, why not over the net instead? Roof antennas on this side of the pond are a unicorn today. In the days of analog TV and before cable TV they were on every ...

Up until a few days ago I never knew this video existed. It was taken 3 years ago when Harley and Motley first arrived at barely 6 weeks old. Harley is the feisty one smacking his brother in the head.

The names shown at the bottom are temporary.

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