Test Equipment Anonymous

That radio looks cool, and it's nice to see AM/FM stations still alive, in these days of trashy DAB We actually don't have DAB here anymore. Canada allocated a different chunk of spectrum for that than Europe did which resulted in receiver incompatibility. There were very few DAB receivers availabl...

Some of the choices of some of the discontinuations and retained products strike me as a bit strange. The whole U1272/3/3AX line got discontinued but they kept both the U125x and U128x lines of multimeters. I was under the impression that the U1282A was the replacement for the U1252/3 but they've k...

Am I right in assuming it "only" does analog audio? And if one wants digital or mixed-mode, it's Audio Precision time again? Not that I want to belittle your little beauty, I'm seriously smitten too, but I have some work coming up where it would be very nice to look at an AES3 signal and ...

I did "have" to use GOTO once at university, in a 10 line program. The (competent) professor's eyebrows went up, then he agreed that the code was clear and there wasn't a clear(er) alternative. Apart from that, in C goto is most often seen where a decent exception handling mechanism isn't...

I fear reading this thread is going to cost me $$! :? I look forward to your further impressions of the QA403. -Pat One thing that has stood out with the QA403 is its sensitivity and ability to pick up noise and I've noticed some cable to cable quality variation in terms of noise susceptibility tha...

This Scott 330C has a three position wide/normal/narrow bandwidth selection that would be interesting to hear an AM music station through. I'm thinking about pulling it off the shelf and doing a restoration and alignment on it. Does this sound like a good fall project? Excellent Fall project. But b...

Here's the background for context: The commercial radio landscape's changing quite a bit here. Before CHML 900 was shut down which I mentioned a few posts back, Bell Canada, which is really the old phone company despite attempting to be a diversified conglomerate, unloaded a bunch of their AM radio ...

I was browsing the Keysight website trying to find some information about replacement scope probes for the U1602A. One of mine's defective and I do want to replace it, but I was having trouble finding information. The last time I looked on Newark's website, all the probes they offered for portable s...

Things that go bump in the night. Last night I hear this loud crash coming from the lab. What did the cat get into now? :o Go into the lab and find my custom made probe rack on the floor in a twisted mess. And several pieces broken off the probe rack. So today repaired the rack and untangled all th...

I've been playing around with the QuantAsylum QA403 audio analyzer that arrived last week. It's a neat piece of kit and I'm still very much getting the hang of using it and I've run into a few surprises. I thought I'd do a post to update everyone and thought it might be a good idea to move it out of...

The death of a radio station. I came in from mowing the lawn and saw this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/900-chml-global-news-radio-closing-hamilton-1.7294411 I had the test equipment laptop out ready to go for the QA403 but I grabbed the SDR instead and went back outside. It's totally the...

I got a package delivery notification in my email earlier today showing a box with test equipment in it sitting on my front porch. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully it's still there when I get home from work. Speaking of work, one of the guys here told me about an hour ago that they threw out an Hewl...

I got a package delivery notification in my email earlier today showing a box with test equipment in it sitting on my front porch. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully it's still there when I get home from work. Speaking of work, one of the guys here told me about an hour ago that they threw out an Hewle...

Do you want to lose your lunch? The Toronto Star publishes a good number of eyerollers but I almost spat my coffee when I saw this headline. Rod McQueen: ‘Call me Carly’: The moment I knew Hewlett-Packard’s CEO was special https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/call-me-carly-the-moment-i-knew-hewl...

iirc Minolta hoovered up (sorry, not sorry) a number of other camera brands (Konica, Yashica etc) and some of them may still be in operation, or the brand names sold to the Chinese, not sure... iirc Minolta hoovered up (sorry, not sorry) a number of other camera brands (Konica, Yashica etc) and som...

Excellent! Although I must say I prefer LEDs to an LCD. Agreed. And no backlight is provided which makes it hard to read in low light conditions. I have the same complaint with my Fluke 8010A and 8050A. Hewlett Packard also had a line of bench meters in the 1980s that were the same. No backlight ma...

Big companies can be incredibly bureaucratic and wasteful, apart from the occasional nutter serving as a manager. One place I worked at had staff auctions for equipment that was being disposed of. They were popular, but they were abandoned because there were complaints from people on other sites th...

Frustrating, wasteful and silly. I worked in a place where one of the managers was obsessive-compulsive tidy, a clear desk policy and all the rest. In fact he suffered from OCD. A bona fide nutcase. He couldn't stand any clutter at all. There were a load of Racal stat muxes, which the immediate nee...

I consoled myself about the direct-to-dumpster policy for writing off old test equipment with a Facebook Marketplace purchase a couple of days ago from a lady who it turns out works in the next building. We met for coffee and shot the breeze and I came away with another Simpson 260 and an Amprobe cl...

I'm not sure whether to go bad news first or last. I guess good news first. I did have some test equipment fun at home the other day. I saw the Gary Ramsey video of the Hewlett Packard 3325A function generator that had spurious non-harmonically related content in the output which he examined using a...

Is there a British citizenship requirement to visit the museum? I'm just wondering if that's the reason for the passport and picture being taken. A friend and I went to Ottawa a couple of weekends ago because I had a football game out there on the Saturday. We visited the Diefenbunker in Carp, which...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2324 Seems a shame to just abandon it, when I have its brother on the shelf, also collecting dust. Is there any way to get it tooya without customs raping you on it as if it were a working gazillion-dollar meter? :thinking: mnem yes, you...

Remember the Simpson 635HV I picked up back between Christmas and New Year's that had been disassembled by the lady who was selling it to check for corrosion? I finally got it out of its box today and assembled it. She wasn't kidding about it being corroded. It's actually in sadder shape than I thou...

The dead self-powered loudspeaker from the mosque didn't go on the bench yesterday after all. The friend involved with that had some minor surgery and didn't feel up to it. He had a lead-up time to the surgery where he couldn't eat and after the ordeal, he was wiped out and decided to call it off wi...

Good to see you at least poke your head up. Fingers crossed that you get a bit of a break to decompress and enjoy yourself a bit. I suppose that feast beats famine where work is involved, but neither can be a permanent condition! -Pat I'm on holiday now. It's been nice to not set the alarm clock an...