Test Equipment Anonymous

"I suspect that, as with the BBC, that is because there is no pressure from the advertisers to create ever more episodes until the content becomes homeopathic. Yes M*A*S*H, I'm looking at you" probably why we still praise the quickly canceled "firefly" . if they had killed off &q...

gotta' admit that you brits did some limited episode series that were freakin' great. "I Claudius" and "Danger UXB" come to mind. had long given up hope that we would ever do similar.......until "band of brothers" came along. edit on second thought......wasn't the red h...

Klaatu barada nikto.

yep....now that there was a great flick.

scary robot, friendly logical alien, hot mom, long haired professor, only mildly annoying kid........and a theremin! it had everything.

have watched it over and over for the last 60 years or so.........and still enjoy it every time.

there are a couple of reasons for using that 6ft length of rg-58 coming off the signal generator. 1 the 8620 is off to the side of the bench at the bottom of a stack of hp heavy metal. and my ass is lazy and old. 2. the 10 ghz sweep plug-in is home brew. its output comes right off the yig at 20 dBm....

thanks!

do not have a manual for the 8620b and could not look it up.

it was indeed dead short, so it made me wonder.

was using my 10Ghz franken-sweeper to try to characterize the directivity of this coupler at higher than its rated range. smelled smoke! then the damn sweeper output disappeared. shit! turned out to be an easy fix after only 20 minutes of trouble shooting. damn cap on the sweep generator board went ...

My bucket list? To wake up everyday. :lol: Seriously, these weren't "technical" but were on the list and achieved... Visit West cost USA....specifically LA. Was not impressed. Travel across Mojave Desert and camped out at rim of Grand Canyon. That was impressive. Technical.... Visited Nav...

Chinesium TE has its place on a working workbench or on a tinkerer's sidebench. No judgement from this tinkerdwagon. :D mnem whatever it takes. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/922/n4zBgd.jpg The Fnirsi order came in the day before I was due to travel on vacation and I was tied up with...

I have to agree with Mike. in the early 2000's my set up was a loran frequency comparison receiver for checking my in house rubidium standard. then an executive order required the coast guard to turn off the transmitters and topple the antenna towers. thanks obama! so my new plan was to fix a borked...

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 ...

Arriving early part of next week, something that has been eluding me at the right price for years. This beauty will take boards upto 240 mm long and a tad over 100 mm in depth, 3.2 litres in fluid capacity, just what I needed when I did that Black Star 4503 bench meter with that very high impedance...

Correctly guessed. It is the Pompeii archaeological site. Currently lying in bed in Naples. Off to the archeological museum in an hour. Hopefully the rain stops by then. Yes it’s bloody raining. Do try some local excessively sensual fresh fruit, but don't gorge on them. Ficus carica, of course. You...

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 ...

thanks!

I get it now.

but what if you need more than 16 million colors? don't we all need 20 to 30 million colors in our holiday display?

have never seen strings like that. (maybe I just need to get out more?) was unable to open the link. are they molded directly on to the wires? (no sockets? can you replace dead ones?) are they just white? are they purpose made for indoor tree lighting or can you use them outside in the weather? are ...

you jack wagon you.........."clean under the refrigerator" made me choke on my raisin bran.

(am still picturing it....ha!)

feckin' slide switches........don't get me started!

(its why I gave up on the other wise excellent german made hp pulse generators)

ps and yet for some reason bd is a slide switch fan boy.....he loves the things.

others here disagree......but I have always really liked the look of those dot LEDs. the 8640b locked to a rubidium standard is my go to sig generator for anything under 500 Mhz.

did you by any chance stick your probes directly in the gooey crap just to see how conductive it is? maybe you would need an hp 4329a or some such for this test? (always wanted one, but am still searching) "The 4329A is a solid-state insulation resistance meter designed for easy, accurate and d...

looked in my junk box and found these.

so........you purposely put the new shelves at different heights just to trigger my OCD........didn't ya'? "Humans have an instinctual need and preference for balance and order, so we are drawn to symmetrical designs at a subconscious, visceral level. Finding such equilibrium in your home can h...

had to look up "sticky" as it relates to a blog.

does that make me a weirdo....or just old as dirt?

ps I liked it being sticky.

attached is a picture of asta and my ic-V8 2 meter transceiver.

seems my little radio has been in the news lately.

asta has not.

I was about to begin checking them out this afternoon when I got downstairs and discovered that air conditioner condensation had run all over the floor by the furnace. That put a stop to doing anything on the bench. I traced the drain line and it wasn't plugged, right up to the ductwork sheetmetal ...

Brazil?