Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Black Phoenix]

The only ones I found is with a surge protector - https://southernele.com/l-com-al-bmbfb-9-bnc-male-to-bnc-female-bulkhead-0-3-ghz-90v-lightning-protector/

Normal ones is always female to female BNC or Male to Male BNC. So I don't think it is what you are looking for.

[TERRA Operative]

Yeah, I found basically the same results.
I'm starting a design on a Tekprobe power adapter and a bulkhead Male-Female BNC would be perfect for it, but maybe I can screw some bulkhead BNC-SMA adapters together and still be compact enough.
Or maybe some vertical PCB mount BNC's back to back either side of the PCB.

Have to think about it.

[KrudyZ]

I would recommend you buy an old 11k series plugin, like an 11A34.
It comes with the Tekprobe connect interface with all the power pads in the right location.
Some have coax coming out the back and others have the attenuators built into the connector.
I don't recall which ones which.
Check the manuals...

[Black Phoenix]

Yeah, I found basically the same results.
I'm starting a design on a Tekprobe power adapter and a bulkhead Male-Female BNC would be perfect for it, but maybe I can screw some bulkhead BNC-SMA adapters together and still be compact enough.
Or maybe some vertical PCB mount BNC's back to back either side of the PCB.

Have to think about it.

Let me see tomorrow when I go to the Huaqiang North electronics supermarkets. If I find what you need I will buy a bunch and send your way.

[BU508A]

Page 1197

Page 599 here  (old joke, doubt anybody left here remembers )

 
I do.
 

[wkb]

Unfortunately Bill & Dave were no longer at the helm when HP acquired Compaq. And T&M had already been spun off.

My road to HP started at Philips Information Systems which was acquired by Digital Equipment Corporation, which was acquired by Compaq, which was acquired by HP. Result: an interesting stack of corporate badges and a broad experience with 'executives'. Like Ken Olson, the CEO of DEC, which had the same respect of his employees that Bill and Dave had. But also the universally hated Bob Palmer.

Ah well..

[bd139]

Page 1197

Page 599 here  (old joke, doubt anybody left here remembers )

More to the point, somebody sent me that after I mis-remembered what happened 20 years earlier. Good to have that correction.

I don't, never been good at keeping up with the TEA group. Care to point me to the old reference?

Anyone know what bd139 has become? I enjoyed his approach to life (out here) but for all we know he was suicidal...

BU508A kindly pointed this post out to me. I can confirm that I am still alive and not suicidal at all. Also tautech's overview of what happened is pretty accurate. We exist elsewhere, as well as here occasionally. I actually semi-regularly turn up on here, berate some hams and bugger off again once I've filled the tank.

As for me I'm still knee deep in RPN calculators but have dumped most of the TE off and am concentrating on travelling to stupid and dangerous places, getting drunk with middle aged women and, err, some education too.

Edit: and yes I just did buy a 2215A so I can fix an HP41 printer

[factory]

Good to hear you haven't been completely cured.  I'm sure there are lots of TE bargains still to be found where you are.

Didn't know you have been playing with calculators, I can't read about that, due to the decision made early on, to restrict access to non-TE sections for non-members, which I will remain. Please could you convince the forum owner to allow non-members to see forum hosted TE pictures.

If you haven't seen it, there is a (currently) non-working 33E RPN on offer here: https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=208978

P.S. Link to the other TEA place, for those that don't know about it; https://teanonymous.com/f1/index.php

David

[factory]

Awesome, thanks!

A parcel with the HP sig-gen front panel has arrived today, will open, inspect & repack it tomorrow, for it's journey to Japan, also will look up a suitable tariff code for the customs label. 

David

Nice!

Slow shipping is fine (keep it cheap! )
PM me and we can sort out the details.

Forgot to post pictures, there was only one in the listing, it's now repacked in a larger box and no longer loose in a box.

David

[tggzzz]

I actually semi-regularly turn up on here, berate some hams and bugger off again once I've filled the tank.

I liked your pictures of your local mechanisms that could be used for RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 and RFC 6214.

Have you thought of selling those to the fintech industry or VCs?

[bd139]

Good to hear you haven't been completely cured.  I'm sure there are lots of TE bargains still to be found where you are.

Didn't know you have been playing with calculators, I can't read about that, due to the decision made early on, to restrict access to non-TE sections for non-members, which I will remain. Please could you convince the forum owner to allow non-members to see forum hosted TE pictures.

If you haven't seen it, there is a (currently) non-working 33E RPN on offer here: https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=208978

P.S. Link to the other TEA place, for those that don't know about it; https://teanonymous.com/f1/index.php

David

Well since I posted that I seem to have obtained a Philips PM5705 pulse generator and a Solartron 7150 so definitely not totally cured

I have no oversight or control of the forum but there is no harm in signing up. It's fairly active despite the slow looking front page and there are many hidden benefits.

As for calculators I'll leave the current collection here:



The HP Prime G2 is the daily driver. This is doing proper paid work at the moment.

I haven't been active on vintage radio forum for a long time and don't intend to be. The moderati there are somewhat frustrating. I will pass on the 33E. Think I have enough on the go at the moment, including some queued up. But thanks for the heads up

[bd139]

I actually semi-regularly turn up on here, berate some hams and bugger off again once I've filled the tank.

I liked your pictures of your local mechanisms that could be used for RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 and RFC 6214.

Have you thought of selling those to the fintech industry or VCs?

I think they're into a little lower latency 

[tggzzz]

I actually semi-regularly turn up on here, berate some hams and bugger off again once I've filled the tank.

I liked your pictures of your local mechanisms that could be used for RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 and RFC 6214.

Have you thought of selling those to the fintech industry or VCs?

I think they're into a little lower latency 

That's merely sales technique, possibly requiring the right tie, and spectator box at the relevant sorting event.

When I was young, the right blazer was also necessary, but times change.

[Robert763]

Fluke TE arrival.
Made an offer on a bit of Fluke TE late Thursday and it arrived today. It was the second time the item was listed and the start price was well below the typical selling price or the item. This seemed a bit odd. Maybe people thought it was a scam. Maybe it was. Well I rolled the dice and a offer of £85 was accepted. Came Special Delivery. Opened it up and no it wasn't half a brick.
Its a VT04 IR imaging Thermometer  OK not a "proper" Thermal imager at 30x 30 resolution, but I have a couple of those (320x240 30fps). It is small , handheld and works. It uses image fusion to make a more usable image. There is also recording to  uSD card and PC connectivity. These normally sell for around £300 on ebay. The VT02 sells for about £150 but is only 16x16 resolution. Oddly the "A" version of the VT04 is lower spec than the straight 04.
Anyway a nice new toy for the toolbox. I'll try it on a PCB soon.

[cosmicray]

I actually semi-regularly turn up on here, berate some hams and bugger off again once I've filled the tank.

I liked your pictures of your local mechanisms that could be used for RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 and RFC 6214.

Have you thought of selling those to the fintech industry or VCs?

I think they're into a little lower latency 

Latency can be improved by introducing some of family Accipitridae into the stream, although at the price of data integrity.

[factory]

Well since I posted that I seem to have obtained a Philips PM5705 pulse generator and a Solartron 7150 so definitely not totally cured

I have no oversight or control of the forum but there is no harm in signing up. It's fairly active despite the slow looking front page and there are many hidden benefits.

As for calculators I'll leave the current collection here:



The HP Prime G2 is the daily driver. This is doing proper paid work at the moment.

I haven't been active on vintage radio forum for a long time and don't intend to be. The moderati there are somewhat frustrating. I will pass on the 33E. Think I have enough on the go at the moment, including some queued up. But thanks for the heads up

Good to hear you've prevented some more TE being bought by that murderer seller. Used the 7150 many times at work in the past, never had the filter release it's aroma, but one did die from a burnt relay, while I was away from the bench.

Nice collection, only have the one HP calculator here, a 71B, but there are a few Casio and some older VFD ones, need to get them all in one place.

I know what you mean about the radio forum, there is a lot of intolerance to slight off topic and it's the only forum I use that ebay related discussions are a no-no, all because one a-hole threatened the mods many many years ago (before I joined). But it is one of the few places for discussing UK made vintage TE (in one place), I do ignore all the boring AVO VCM topics though, I hate the things, mainly because they are used by many choob rapists flogging them on ePay.
And they did at least dispose of Mr Alias* (a time waster, that thinks everyone else can fix his junk, with no measurements & search google for him, because he can't be arsed) for the second time, something this forum has failed to do.
*not his username, if you look for 7075, you'll find many threads dumped all over the forum, from him.

David

[Zenith]

I know what you mean about the radio forum, there is a lot of intolerance to slight off topic and it's the only forum I use that ebay related discussions are a no-no, all because one a-hole threatened the mods many many years ago (before I joined). But it is one of the few places for discussing UK made vintage TE (in one place), I do ignore all the boring AVO VCM topics though, I hate the things, mainly because they are used by many choob rapists flogging them on ePay.
And they did at least dispose of Mr Alias* (a time waster, that thinks everyone else can fix his junk, with no measurements & search google for him, because he can't be arsed) for the second time, something this forum has failed to do.
*not his username, if you look for 7075, you'll find many threads dumped all over the forum, from him.

David

I contributed to it for some years. I was interested in comms receivers and TE, not domestic radios and TVs etc.

The ebay episode was about an AJS cat's whisker crystal set sold on ebay for a hefty price, over a ton IIRC, which someone said looked like a fake made last week. It was a fake since AJS never made a crystal set, obvious from a quick web search. They were an offshoot of AJS motorcycles and made battery mains receivers for a few years around the late 20s. There was some discussion about whether the seller was a crook and the buyer a sucker. That's when someone joined specially to complain about the thread, quite likely the buyer or the seller. They went on about the arrogance, the contempt, the rudeness, the libelous accusations and made a very vague threat about how this kind of talk could involve lawyers and a legal action, although it wasn't clear on what grounds or who against.  The moderators and forum owner got the wind up and stopped ebay discussions. I've heard the story retold as a lawyer making a definite threat of serious legal action, but it was just someone venting hot air. The poster didn't identify himself as the buyer or seller or claim to be a lawyer.

I got fed up with the moderation which became excessive and downright rude. For instance, a discussion on side cutters was deemed off-topic and closed. It hadn't gone on for many posts and anyone interested in this game uses side cutters. There were numerous similar examples. Then the mods started to delete posts for reasons they never explained. Then they started to correct posts in red for spelling and grammar, and hilariously, often got it wrong. That was enough for me. It's a shame because the sections I frequented the most were interesting and useful.

[tggzzz]

I actually semi-regularly turn up on here, berate some hams and bugger off again once I've filled the tank.

I liked your pictures of your local mechanisms that could be used for RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 and RFC 6214.

Have you thought of selling those to the fintech industry or VCs?

I think they're into a little lower latency 

Latency can be improved by introducing some of family Accipitridae into the stream, although at the price of data integrity.

Just so.

From my parent's drive in the middle of a city. She saw me and flew off. Presumably hunger get the better of her because 10 minutes later she returned, and I stuck the camera around the side of the car.

[tggzzz]

And they did at least dispose of Mr Alias* (a time waster, that thinks everyone else can fix his junk, with no measurements & search google for him, because he can't be arsed) for the second time, something this forum has failed to do.

Yeah That's beginning to occur here too. There's one obvious serial offender, but another couple are hovering in the wings.

It is quite reasonable for a beginner to do that a few times before they learn, and it can be pleasing to help them learn. Less so when a "professional" with (allegedly) many years experience in the field does it.

[TERRA Operative]

Well, we have faringdon et al. who is always good for a laugh and a shake of the head.

[tggzzz]

Well, we have faringdon et al. who is always good for a laugh and a shake of the head.

That's a presumption on your part

I don't find professional "emotional vampires", who unnecessarily suck up other people's valuable attention and time, to be funny.

[bd139]

Well since I posted that I seem to have obtained a Philips PM5705 pulse generator and a Solartron 7150 so definitely not totally cured

I have no oversight or control of the forum but there is no harm in signing up. It's fairly active despite the slow looking front page and there are many hidden benefits.

As for calculators I'll leave the current collection here:



The HP Prime G2 is the daily driver. This is doing proper paid work at the moment.

I haven't been active on vintage radio forum for a long time and don't intend to be. The moderati there are somewhat frustrating. I will pass on the 33E. Think I have enough on the go at the moment, including some queued up. But thanks for the heads up

Good to hear you've prevented some more TE being bought by that murderer seller. Used the 7150 many times at work in the past, never had the filter release it's aroma, but one did die from a burnt relay, while I was away from the bench.

Nice collection, only have the one HP calculator here, a 71B, but there are a few Casio and some older VFD ones, need to get them all in one place.

I know what you mean about the radio forum, there is a lot of intolerance to slight off topic and it's the only forum I use that ebay related discussions are a no-no, all because one a-hole threatened the mods many many years ago (before I joined). But it is one of the few places for discussing UK made vintage TE (in one place), I do ignore all the boring AVO VCM topics though, I hate the things, mainly because they are used by many choob rapists flogging them on ePay.
And they did at least dispose of Mr Alias* (a time waster, that thinks everyone else can fix his junk, with no measurements & search google for him, because he can't be arsed) for the second time, something this forum has failed to do.
*not his username, if you look for 7075, you'll find many threads dumped all over the forum, from him.

David

This will be the third I think 7150 I've had. The mains filter is EOL on these but I found a seller on eBay who is selling date coded 2023 ones for £20 a pop which is half the Mouser equivalent price. That and a couple of white LEDs and a clean and it should be good. I'm not doing the whole tear it down and replace everything thing. This is a work machine

71B is very nice. I owned one once. The tax office were throwing them out and there was a pile of them at a radio rally in Enfield for £1 a go. Wish I'd bought the lot at current prices.

I've met a couple of people from the vintage radio forum in person and have found them to be nice but the conversation always drifts to how controlling the forum is. I can understand now if there was a threat made but that doesn't really surprise me. Lots of nasty characters out there. I see to bump into a few at hamfests (tggzzz/Robert not included in that group ).

Just found your 7075 thread instantly. I hate people like that. Basically fix it for me. Nope not how it works.

[bd139]

Well, we have faringdon et al. who is always good for a laugh and a shake of the head.

I'm surprised he hasn't electrocuted himself?

Although difficult to get close enough to any volts in the loony bin computer room.

[bd139]

Well, we have faringdon et al. who is always good for a laugh and a shake of the head.

That's a presumption on your part

I don't find professional "emotional vampires", who unnecessarily suck up other people's valuable attention and time, to be funny.

I agree entirely with this. There is a propensity to let it fly but the hours add up and those are subtracted from your finite ones.

I'm more inclined to tear people a new arsehole as I get older for wasting my time because quite frankly if I don't get called out on it their attitude will continue. There's a megawatt of energy at least going into morons fighting over trivial things and that time can be spent better.

On that back to calculating grouped standard deviations by hand (don't ask)

[factory]

I contributed to it for some years. I was interested in comms receivers and TE, not domestic radios and TVs etc.

The ebay episode was about an AJS cat's whisker crystal set sold on ebay for a hefty price, over a ton IIRC, which someone said looked like a fake made last week. It was a fake since AJS never made a crystal set, obvious from a quick web search. They were an offshoot of AJS motorcycles and made battery mains receivers for a few years around the late 20s. There was some discussion about whether the seller was a crook and the buyer a sucker. That's when someone joined specially to complain about the thread, quite likely the buyer or the seller. They went on about the arrogance, the contempt, the rudeness, the libelous accusations and made a very vague threat about how this kind of talk could involve lawyers and a legal action, although it wasn't clear on what grounds or who against.  The moderators and forum owner got the wind up and stopped ebay discussions. I've heard the story retold as a lawyer making a definite threat of serious legal action, but it was just someone venting hot air. The poster didn't identify himself as the buyer or seller or claim to be a lawyer.

I got fed up with the moderation which became excessive and downright rude. For instance, a discussion on side cutters was deemed off-topic and closed. It hadn't gone on for many posts and anyone interested in this game uses side cutters. There were numerous similar examples. Then the mods started to delete posts for reasons they never explained. Then they started to correct posts in red for spelling and grammar, and hilariously, often got it wrong. That was enough for me. It's a shame because the sections I frequented the most were interesting and useful.

It's mostly the TE section I read/contribute to, haven't repaired a radio for years. Since broadcast radio has been ruined by Global & Bauer Media, buying up every radio station, asset stripping & turning them into non-local & generic shite, I've pretty much lost interest. The only radio receiver I've worked on in the last year is the HP 5090A, which is an off-air standard receiver, the 198kHz conversion PCB was a success, I posted about that both here & there.

The mods of any forum can only follow the rules of the owner.

One of the mods that joined the mod team in the last few year is ex-HP, very knowledgeable, was a designer at South Queensferry until Agilent took over & deleted the factory, AFAIK he isn't on the HPAK groups.io.

It's strange what is allowed & what gets closed, certainly a recent topic on wire-strippers was OK, anything vehicle related (air/sea/land based) that isn't radio/audio related gets locked quickly and discussions of house wiring got banned. Not every ebay mention gets locked or deleted, guess they don't have time to read/deal with everything. I've not seen any spelling/grammar related errors highlighted in red, maybe they stopped doing that IDK. Some of what gets locked/deleted will be due to members complaining as well.

David