Test Equipment Anonymous

I'm going to check it out on the bench tomorrow out of curiosity and see if it comes to life on reduced voltage the way the other one did. Famous last words. Football practice went for two hours instead of one and I was wiped out. Then the weekend was over and the work week began and that was exhau...

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Destroying a Christmas tree sounds like work. Why do that when you can crash out in front of a nice, warm fire instead?

A whole bunch of LED lights on my truck failed in interesting ways fairly close together. Some went dim, some flickered, and I ended up breaking down and buying four to replace the two above the rear license plate and the front marker lights. That's when I discovered the truck's previous owner must...

Overall view with fixture and plug-in installed. I pulled the cover off the 7603 to make sure fixture was properly seated. Even with this extender working on that crowded plug-in is going to be a challenge. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq70/924/ss5VCe.jpg Wow, yes, I can see why working on th...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/HaYrLU.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/922/nZRRr7.jpg Apparently there's a Tektronix 500 series scope on a scope mobile on display in CTV's lobby. It was completely, totally ignored by the CP-24 hosts though who were looking at an ...

Congratulations! That's an excellent score. Especially for the price - I've never seen or heard of one for less than $200 US in any market, not just Sweden. You'll have to keep us posted how it goes as you get a chance to use it more. I paid £40 for mine a couple of years ago :-) I've never encount...

I went to put some stuff in the recycling bin earlier and I was really surprised to see a little parcel on the front porch. Canada Post has been on strike for almost two weeks and contract talks have broken down very badly, so much so that the government appointed mediator stopped facilitating meeti...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/nZ8oqQ.jpg I found a picture of my family's cat Ginger from when I was a kid. I only have a few that I took using the 110 format film camera I had and this is the best one. Her three favourite spots to lay down and enjoy heat coming off a running ap...

New arrival, the - hp - 8640B! It's been on the wish list basically since I was bit with the TEA bug. And now I own one. A colleague, who already owns one, tipped me off on one that was offered at a low -- for Sweden -- starting price of about 150USD. And it was very local, and pickup only, the lat...

Happiness is a warm receiver https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2402-15-Kittehs/i-RbfF4JQ/0/LcGrVZ4jgW44KTDTWzwJsqcvqbgbQdQFT58pvpsVL/X2/2024022915474526-4366265810840624998-X2.jpg -Pat That's sweet. My family's cat when I was a kid used to do the same on top of the Marantz receiver in the living r...

This flyer was at the mechanic's shop this morning. I couldn't help but notice the photoshop job on the clamp meter: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/HgCGdd.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/923/PkVMyQ.png I get it, it's advertising, replacing the screen in the pictu...

Tonight was a continuation of testing the balky Panasonic CF-31 Toughbook and some very minor putting away and organizing stuff. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/922/UH2AX9.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/goqhXv.jpg The SDRPlay Duo + SDRUno software work. The FM ba...

The main laptop I've been using for test equipment is an Panasonic CF-53 Toughbook I picked up a couple of years ago. It came as a lot with a CF-31 as well which I never did much with since the CF-53 has a larger screen. A number of recent circumstances had me thinking about having both laptops runn...

Are there any local laws about excessive noise? I doubt there are any about excessive strobe lights :twisted: As for put-put devices, not much can beat hydraulic rams - and they are useful. :twisted: In the UK there's this https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/32/part/3/crossheading/public-nuis...

Are there any local laws about excessive noise? I doubt there are any about excessive strobe lights :twisted: As for put-put devices, not much can beat hydraulic rams - and they are useful. :twisted: I think my city has bylaws about noise that run from 11:00 PM until 7:00 AM. I don't think there's ...

Now I wanna come back to the GWN and build a 20x scale version of that in a lot across the road from you. :twisted: mnem yes, you may touch it. As a hotel. mnem :lol: I'd enjoy that just for the fact it would send that awful neighbour into an epic snit. I was tossing an idea around for that Strobot...

I've rarely seen it. Once was at a car boot sale where a woman was selling a piece of electronic kit. She had a sign saying "£15 - no offers", but she didn't know what it was. I explained it was a chromatone, a piece of early disco equipment. It splits music into three frequency bands and...

Drawing attention to another calculator purchase as I'm in jammy git territory here and feeling smug about it :lol: https://i.imgur.com/iVCabaR.jpg Thread in calculator forum Very nice! That takes me back to February, 2008, a couple of months before the world financial crash, and a three hour long ...

Took it to the counter for a price and they called up an older guy who looked at it and said $50. I said that seems a bit much, how about $20? His respone was literally "I don't know what it is so I won't sell it for less". It's still there... Clearly aparts unit. IF the displays were soc...

I thought I'd throw out a picture of my 5335A in action. Of the counters I have, it's my favourite.

I got a marketing email from Rhode & Schwartz the other day. They had the fill out a form to receive an RF spectrum allocation poster promotion going on and that made me realize something: I filled out that promotion several years ago and I never received the poster. Then I realized I filled out...

I mentioned Johns Radio a few days ago. Purely by coincidence I was looking at an archive disk today and came across the catalog for the "closing down" sale in 2002. John was not happy with the result and claimed that the buyers had conspired to keep prices low. No such thing happened. Th...

Is your 453 one of the units that was branded for IBM?

I came back from a vacation late Wednesday night and found this notice tucked in the front door handle: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/923/nCJoa2.jpg I've never received advance notice of a power shutoff before and none of the line powered clocks in the house had lost time or reset so...