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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Neomys Sapiens:
--- Quote from: m k on July 05, 2022, 07:49:36 pm ---
Is there possibly a military grade high resolution video system with small screens?
Just wondering from where HP got their idea.
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A cursory look at my records turned up the following ducuments:
RCC 452-86 Video standards and Formats (RCC: Range Commanders Council)
MIL-HDBK-87213A (USAF) ELECTRONICALLY / OPTICALLY GENERATED AIRBORNE DISPLAYS
MIL-STD-1556 Aircrew station displays and assoc. equipment, definitons of
Will take another look later.
Zoli:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 06, 2022, 05:58:52 pm ---...
As for DMM's, I don't have fancy modern ones that can test white LEDs.
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You don't need a new and fancy DMM to test the LED's; as example, my DMM870(1998) gives 3.2v, and the 8060A gives 8V in diode testing mode, both enough to light up any LED's.
That's why I've asked to check your multi-meters, so next time you will know which is suitable for LED testing(is part of "Know your tools" training) >:D :-DD :-DD :-DD
bd139:
--- Quote from: Neomys Sapiens on July 07, 2022, 04:07:57 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2022, 02:04:21 pm ---This sounds like the comedic "talk-ins" you get on 2m at hamfests. I actually used to drag my FT818 along just so I could listen to them getting lost and angry :-DD :-DD
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The most´hilarious samples of this type were available when big events or massive situations did lead to units from distant parts of the country being deployed to the region and being present on the radio net in the former times of analogue BOS radio (our PSB).
Episode 1.) Our twin city across the Rhine (situated in the federal state of Rheinland-Palatinate) Ludwigshafen is a city with a very high concentration of chemical industry. A major local event is the annual SAP Marathon, which is often routed through both cities and states. One of the companies which reside in Ludwigshafen is called Raschig. It exudes the smell of road marking paint multiplied hundredfold most of the time and sometimes even more.
Conversation on the combined inter-agency event special channel coming suddenly up during an otherwise dull waiting period:
<Marathon Lu 7-63 : a team of Paramedics or Firefighters from a remote, rural part of Rheinland-Palatinate, tasked with providing a first-aid post and close off a large intersection>:
(very agitated and partially scrambled) 'Marathon Lu from Marathon Lu 7-63!! You must stop, we must abort! Here was an industrial accident! It stinks and we do feel dizzy. What should we do? Send us help.. It smells so much. This must be dangerous'
'Marathon unit calling in Marathon Lu, please state your position!'
'Here is Marathon Lu 7-63..We are where the industrial accident is!'
'Marathon Lu 7-63 for Marathon Lu, what is you assigned position?'
'Here is Marathon Lu 7-63, we do not know. IT STINKS!'
'Marathon Lu 7-63, stand by!'
(here you could hear the conversation in the coordination center)
'Give me the list..lets see---7-63?!?'
(silence of a minute)
Parallel, regular police channel of Ludwigshafen:
'Ludwig 1107 <patrol car native to the area> for Ludwig <dispatch>?'
'Here's 1107 - what gives?'
'Do you know how the Raschig smells when it stinks normally?'
'Yes - so?'
'Ok, please proceed to the intersection Road A/Road B (which is behind the Raschig factory). There are some comrades from X-town at a marathon post - they believe that there was an accident at the factory because of the smell!'
(sound snippets of roaring laughter from various stations and units)
'Ludwig for 1107, we will continue our patrol. We passed by there earlier. Raschig smells since yesterday - somewhat, but not much!>
Episode 2.) During the violent Kurdish mass protests in the 90s, police units from the whole of Germany were deployed to Mannheim. One such unit apparently got lost:
'Cavalier <Pol. Ma foreign contigents directions and assignments> for Hanno 400 <unit of riot police from Hannover>, where are we here? We do not know where we are! Where should we go?>
'Hanno 400, can you describe your position?'
'Cavalier, there is a large building, looks like some company, and another one on the other side. And a parking lot...with a fence. And another, without a fence..'
(this description applies to several 100s or even 1000s of places in our metropolitan region, so it is useless)
'Hanno 400, can you see any conspicious landmarks?'
'We can see some hills in the distance, but they are not close'
(again not helpful, as this applies to 3 of the 4 cardinal directions here)
'Hanno 400, have you tried asking for directions to Point X?'
'Yes. The driver said that we should call the police - but we are the police!'
'Are you sure? (continuing in a pronounced dialect of SW Germany) Dohin wees die Bollizei wo se rumfaehrt! ('here the police knows where it drives around!''
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That’s hilarious :-DD. Thanks for taking the time to write it up.
bd139:
--- Quote from: Carl_Smith on July 07, 2022, 01:36:58 am ---Have you tried FreeCAD? :-DD
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This is quite funny. I was having a discussion yesterday with a colleague about software. He got into 3DP recently and tried to use FreeCAD for about a month before giving up. His comment was that it should be put into a skip with LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Gimp and Darktable. Having, through no irony at all, used all of them I had to agree. He uses a mac now as well to quote because “his tears were burning the cuts on his arms after a year on Ubuntu” :-DD
bd139:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 07, 2022, 12:21:38 am ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 06, 2022, 11:26:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2022, 09:05:29 pm ---Find an image editing tool with white balance control on it. Click that then click the bit of the picture they’ll at is supposed to be white. Job done. 99% of the photo is the photographer not the camera
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med uses Winbloze. Windoze Photos works very well for minor post-processing; that pic, I'd just turn the "WARMTH" and "CLARITY" sliders up a click or three; would make a world of difference. Vince complains about my grey printed knobs being purple too; personally, I suspect the monitor he's using injects a wee bit of bloo. ;)
mnem
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No I don't. IrfanView64.
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I am sorry for your loss :-DD
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