Hello, I just joined this very nice, informative and fun forum after lurking around the multimeter test equipment threads for a few days. I am a gadgets and electronics freak like most of the members (I am guessing), and I only stumbled upon this nice forum because I recently got the itch to get a new multimeter. I have many old analog meters and an old Fluke DMM from the 1990's. I seemed to have lost that old Fluke DMM buried in the mess of my house somewhere, so I decided to get a new one. Well that led me into doing the research for the best bang for the buck if not the best DMM that I can get and not empty my wallet. I found and watched the many nice informative and entertaining videos on the internet which ultimately led me to these forums. So here I am. I am very knowledgeable in electronics and repair and refurbish vintage Hi-Fi Stereo equipment (tube and solid state) and speaker systems in my spare time as a hobby. So a really nice meter like the Brymen BM869 caught my attention and I just went ahead and ordered one based on the high raves from the many on this forum. I thank Dave and all that make this forum so informative and the fun to watch videos. I am glad to join and be part of it!
I am from and in the NYC area, USA.
Update: I might add that I have been attracted to electricity and electronics since I was about 11 years young from the first time I got shocked by the electrical 120VAC current playing around with an AC electrical socket and then moving on into my ventures of Hi-Fi stereo sound and equipment. I used to pick up old TV set chassis and speakers off the street in NYC when I found them thrown out and in junk yards! I would bring them home and start tinkering and taking them apart, learning electronics. Later I enlisted and served 8 years in the U.S. Navy where I was trained thoroughly in electronics and worked on all sorts of Digital and Analog equipment from radios, multiplexers, test equipment, teletype to a full blown Univac computer system with old fashioned MIST cards! Those were the fun days! I received my FCC 1st Class Radiotelephone license back in 1980 while serving a tour of duty on Guam. I went on after the Navy to work for IBM for 19 years where I honed my software development programming skills, then at AT&T as a senior software engineer, District manager. Bad times laid a lot of us senior paid individuals off and I wound up for a stint as Director of IT Programmimg at NYC, HHC for 2 years, then got called back to work as a consulting contractor to AT&T again doing software development stuff where I am now. I still dabble in electronics every now and then, mostly audio Hi-Fi related. I have a BS degree in Mathematics with Computer Specialization and a MS Degree in Telecommunications. That's my extremely summarized background.