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Test set up: 2465 set to 50 ohm input. 75 ohm output on the generator. Why hp chose 75 ohm is a mystery to me. The results. Drum roll..... So the symmetry issue is finally fixed. All that's left to do is calibrate the frequency dial. There are adjustments for each range so it should fall into place...

The delayed delivery is reminiscent of trying to obtain replacement parts from the EU or UK in the 1980s & '90s. We could have sworn that a fast 1800s style "windjammer" service would have got them to Western Australia faster! EU & UK manufacturers complained that "nobody in A...

There's The Roundhouse in Fremantle. https://emmajaneexplores.com/visiting-fremantle-round-house/ It was built as a prison in the 1830s, but it was used for storage later on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIpzSQq_Wk The Youtube video is only four minutes long. It gives good views of the courtyar...

Curious; I don't remember one. Was it in Southampton? That would mildly surprise me since most of Southampton city centre and docks were extensively redeveloped[1] by the Luftwaffe. The nearest I can see is https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1339976 but that is stated to be ...

When I went to Southampton UK back in the day, one of the interesting sights was a warehouse from the mid 1400s, which was notable for some other reason now lost in the mists of receding memories. What struck me was that it was virtually indistinguishable from some made in Fremantle WA in the 1840s...

100 miles vs. 100 years. My house in 95 years old. My parents house was 170 years old. Then we get to old houses. I enjoy walking down streets 2000 years old, and sitting on rocks placed in a circle by people completely forgotten to time who spoke in an unknown (and forevermore unkowable) language....

Seventeen & "a bit" hours flight from Perth WA to Heathrow, an 8 hour drive to Dunoon, then back again. On top of that, the airline might not let me take it as luggage, so perhaps not--I'm getting way too old for this shit!

Back in 1971, I remember the Aussies, Yanks, Kiwis & Canucks getting together to "whinge" about the poor quality of "bought" food in England. Actually, the "Transport Caffs" were usually a bit more edible than the more pretentious "takeaways". There was on...

--- No, that was me! vk6zgo ! I remember in 1971 driving up from Southampton one Sunday, because I wanted to buy some KFC. That's just weird, nobody in their right mind wants Kentucky Fries Mouse. Interestingly, when they first appeared in Oz, "The Colonel" as we called it back then in Pe...

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Piccadilly-by-Night-London-1960-by-Elmar-Ludwig.jpg Piccadilly by Night London 1960 by Elmar Ludwig Piccadilly by Night? According to Guinness Time there, the picture was taken at 5:18 PM! Night? Just how early was bedtime back then? It is already get...

As for the larger issue surrounding the whole shitty mess... yeah, it's a shitty mess. As has been mentioned; "volunteer" shitty mess. :roll: It sucks, but I think this is a "pick your battles" scenario. You're probably best off treating it as a life lesson about working with du...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2694 Your mention of the Quangsheng brand prompted me to actually do a little Gurrgling on them, something I've been "gonna do" for a while now. Looks like these little Chinesium nipple-warmers have advanced quite a bit since I...

New Revox B77 are being made but they're listed at just under 16,000 Euro dollars. Edited to add: From what I've seen, they're only making a Revox B77 version of the machine - no Studer PR99 counterpart. I'm not sure how much or if there was a gap between Quantegy bailing out, RMGI starting up and ...

There's my thread at The Other Plaice, https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/fluke-8125a-military-dmm-teardown/ The other place can fuck right off! I've made it impossible for me to recover my account again now. I might have "blotted my copybook" too, by too enthusiastically "thanki...

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough. You ought to be careful... Someone Over There has written "I don't understand why bd139 is some kind of cult character to some,..." :shock: :lol: I do. I've got all his merch including the very collectible bd139 Thug Life tee shirt. All hail the mighty ...

Went to store for soda for the kids... everybody is there stocking up on everything from milk to bread to yes, dozens of rolls of TP. Lines literally 3/4 of the store deep. Why? 80-160mm of snow forecast over the next 2 days. :roll: Panic buying is a strange mentality. You'd think folks would keep ...

On the Fluke 80xx handhelds with side "key" switches I've never had or heard any complaints. For a manual ranging meter a button per range is great. You can go straight to the range you want. The side keys allow single handed selection of function and range. Unless you have tiny hands... ...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:45 am Speaking of which.....do the new pound notes still have images of Lizzie or changed to dumbo ears? And Canadian dollars too? What about OZ notes?

I think Oz one & two dollar coins have gone over to Charlie's picture, but coins being so durable, there will be plenty with Bess on them for years.

Haven't heard that, but Cockney rhyming slang continually mutates. If it is that, then you would only ever say "ginger"; the "beer" must be omitted. Hence "I'm going up the apples to have a butchers to see if there is a whistle" would mean "I'm going up the stairs...

took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? what's next....videos of morris dancing? guess that's what happens when you are isolated on a little island. too bad the roman empire pulled out and left you to alone to develop your strange...

Yeah I think the 8060A was aimed more at electronics guys, the rubber baby buggy bumper brigade are more a sparky thing. @Robert, identifying the connector on this seems the sort of thing you excel at: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHZahEGn_8&lc=UgxrhKRMEO2H3zxcjyF4AaABAg.ADIDWCryxW...

In my last pre-retirement job, in the workshop, we had an IFR spectrum analyser which, although it had a second handbook about how you could send commands to it remotely, had no information on how to make screenshots, other than to the inbuilt floppy. Ok, sez I, "easy peasy", ---- just fil...

Maybe the Holy Roller robot builder has a following because everything else on the forum has become dead boring! They seem to be determined to remove any vestige of the old EEVBlog, with a lot of political posts of the favoured kind these days, but disagree & you are firmly told "no politic...

That reminds me of a neighbour we had once. "Humberman" he was known as. Had a large collection of Humbers parked literally everywhere he could squeeze them. They were all broken, noisy and turned into smoke screens instantly. Reminds me in turn of another mate who had a backyard chock fu...

I was just over on "the other place"----No, not the Australian Senate Chamber, but EEVBlog. In their "Projects" section, there is a seriously weird guy called "artbyrobot" , who purports to be building a humanoid robot. His methods are very unlikely to be successful, he...