Test Equipment Anonymous

cowabunga!

last month they sent a kid out to install my new fiber network interface. he commented on the stacks of nixie counters in the basement and mentioned that he had seen one in the Oppenheimer movie. so we went down stairs and played with a couple. it was like watching Indiana Jones finding lost ancient...

what would compel you to replace it with that "thing"? I'd guess it caught his eye as a bit of junk to play with, as a diversion from the other things that crowd his hours. I get that. am guilty myself of spending months in search of a fault. then when restored to its original function yo...

didn't you used to be the proud owner of an hp 5334b? what would compel you to replace it with that "thing"? we know you prefer counters without fans........but geeeeeze. in future consult with a time nut before giving in to an impulse that leads to this kind of shameful situation. ps it i...

oh...got it now.....red-green

good post!

but you need to explain why volts are better in blue.

well ok. hp made a tdr.......but they couldn't have sold many. have you ever heard of anyone using one? it figures that cub would have one! the military bought boat loads of the 1502/3 units. when the local wire chief at ft swampy or camp nowhere would take us around to perform site surveys it was n...

tek 1502 with crt.

never saw one actually used in the rain. did see one used at Ft Benning to find an aerial splice case that had been replaced with a trash bag, and as a result was full of rainwater. (around 1986, right after outside plant maintenance was contracted out).

my fortress of solitude has been purged of all tek equipment. your dalliance with cora fendley will not tempt me to go looking for a 485.....(but damn, that is a nice looking scope). am looking forward to seeing pictures with blue traces. ps oh crap......my statement about the purge was disingenuous...

hey tautech just watched a news video about nz politics. apparently you guys settle disagreements with some kind of dance where the participants make startling faces and wave their arms while singing and dancing. is that real......or was I fooled by some kind of ai generated fake? not saying your s...

well ok....like the man said "different countries, different customs"


https://clip.cafe/the-man-who-would-be- ... take-pick/

hey tautech just watched a news video about nz politics. apparently you guys settle disagreements with some kind of dance where the participants make startling faces and wave their arms while singing and dancing. is that real......or was I fooled by some kind of ai generated fake? not saying your sy...

just got back from shopping.

my outbox is clear and your reply was in my inbox time stamped 0906.

tried to send you a PM.

it also appears to be stuck in my outbox.

hey. even my old 54601a does an fft.


https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/an/pdf/hp54600_fft.pdf


edit ok...it was purchased maybe 6 or 7 years ago, but it was only 75 bucks.

sure, a spectrum analyzer would be a lot cooler. but 75 bucks and it will measure distortion. (that's a win).

suggesting that med acquire a distortion analyzer is........just plain mean. it might cause him to go off searching for an hp334. (DON'T DO THAT!) maybe he has a scope with an fft function? my hp54622 will measure distortion with an fft. not being a tek guy i don't know for sure, but they must have ...

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....

holy crap med......are you hearing the pissing and moaning from these brits about driving a couple of hours? to recover a crusty smelly tek scope med drove 5 hours to my house......went over and toured the Gettysburg battlefield....and then turned and burned for home. and he seemed to enjoy being ou...

my work here is done.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCO6smQrjJ8

no doubt you guys will scoff at me......but in my 20's and 30's, when out on the trail I sometimes would smell a snake before anyone would see it. it didn't happen that often, but often enough that my fellow hikers would pay attention when warned that something smelled "snakey". what does ...

hey med a small envelope was dropped off at the post office this afternoon. was gonna put it in a small box.....but the word in the Commonwealth of PA is that new yorkers typically use small boxes to mail tarantulas to their enemies. felt you would be more comfortable with an envelope. Tarantulas a...

hey med

a small envelope was dropped off at the post office this afternoon.

was gonna put it in a small box.....but the word in the Commonwealth of PA is that new yorkers typically use small boxes to mail tarantulas to their enemies.

felt you would be more comfortable with an envelope.

hey med

nudity is not appropriate on this forum.

pm me your new address and i will pop this one in the mail.

edit do not spray paint it blue.

"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...