Had a successful TEA repair morning, the back up battery for the HP 8970A finally arrived.
You have to love the process of re-calibration of the IF attenuators, plug on a noise source, then hit "33.0 special function" wait 5 secs - that's it!
Also my 'new baby' transceiver, an Icom 7610, a software defined transceiver, has a tendency to drop off the adhesive taped on heat sinks on the ADCs! Which can go bouncing around shorting out other goodies, WA6JKN has very kindly made a small clip, laser cut, to hold them on. All installed today!
Rob