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mnementh
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I found these resources today while trawling for a .pdf manual for my Eico 250 VTVM:

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archi ... o-1974.pdf

https://www.kevinchant.com

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EICO was a most worthy competitor to Heath. Sadly they went the way of the dodo too. :roll:

Edit...EICO also sold audio kits but I don't see them in that catalog. Perhaps it was a separate catalog. I do have an EICO catalog somewhere in my stash along with dozens of Heathkit catalogs.
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I always thought EICO was a lesser manufacturer of TE, not a kit company. We don't see EICO much this side of the pond. Heathkit/Daystrom was well established here and they had a factory in Gloucester. Heathkit turns up regularly at swapmeets here. I have a few units; a VTVM, a distortion meter and an audio wattmeter. There were a few other companies of that sort. Jason and Knight come to mind. Those sort of companies, like electronics shops aimed at hobbyists and hams, were things of a particular era.
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We are used to fast transistors switching in ps. Now we have to get used to switching in as, attoseconds, 10-18s.

Yup, forget GHz, forget THz, this is PHz territory.

...demonstrating a current on/off switching effect on a ~630 attosecond scale (~1.6 petahertz speed)...

https://www.planetanalog.com/attosecond ... switching/
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How nature really measures space and time
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The falls and rise of IC and component exports per country since 1980.
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At last, some interesting uses for smartphone... physics experiments using the phone sensors. https://phyphox.org/ One example is a chirped sonar. Another is using the accelerometer to see heart rate.

It also shows raw sensor readings, e.g. number of GPS satellites and horizontal/vertical accuracy 6m/19m with 5 satellites, 2m/10m with 20 satellites.
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