Test Equipment Anonymous

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...

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 ...

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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...

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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?