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Quote from: tautech on May 12, 2019, 09:36:42 pmQuote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 09:26:32 pmMe: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?Mom: No, I didn't.Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.Mom: Sorry, no flowers.After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H I think I'll crawl back into my hole. In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ? Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up.
Quote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 09:26:32 pmMe: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?Mom: No, I didn't.Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.Mom: Sorry, no flowers.After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H I think I'll crawl back into my hole. In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ?
Me: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?Mom: No, I didn't.Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.Mom: Sorry, no flowers.After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H I think I'll crawl back into my hole.
Quote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 10:55:38 pmQuote from: tautech on May 12, 2019, 09:36:42 pmQuote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 09:26:32 pmMe: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?Mom: No, I didn't.Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.Mom: Sorry, no flowers.After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H I think I'll crawl back into my hole. In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ? Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up. I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then.
Quote from: tautech on May 12, 2019, 11:19:34 pmQuote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 10:55:38 pmQuote from: tautech on May 12, 2019, 09:36:42 pmQuote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 09:26:32 pmMe: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?Mom: No, I didn't.Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.Mom: Sorry, no flowers.After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H I think I'll crawl back into my hole. In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ? Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up. I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then. You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse.
Quote from: bitseeker on May 12, 2019, 05:16:25 pmThanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA). I wouldn't go THAT far... ESPECIALLY after that statement.
Thanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA).
Quote from: bitseeker on May 12, 2019, 05:16:25 pmIt's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. ... I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding.Also the mod will be harder if the instrument is all PCB and SMD components. You would have to modify the pcb somehow to put 2 connectors (sma) in order to insert your directional coupler. I guess older SA are easier to mod.
It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. ... I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding.
Quote from: mnementh on May 08, 2019, 01:28:27 pmChecking again because bitseeker mentioned probes, looks like scopewa has got some more of the older ones in stock now. At least by the pics, these look like the same as the ones I bought years ago: https://www.ebay.com/itm/182595327054Looks like he's also got some 200MHz P2200s in again... but the rise time seems a little high, IIRC. https://www.ebay.com/itm/182547468622Anybody here got any intel on these?About cheap probes, I just did some really non scientific tests, and the cheap Kuman p6100 probes are holding on up to 300Mhz easy. At 350Mhz they are just bellow the -3db mark.They perform clearly better that the Tek P6054A and P6106 I have here. The Tek probes start dropping fast just after their rated bandwidth.Also got a pair of Jinhao p6100, even if they look identical to the Kuman p6100, they don't perform as good.
Checking again because bitseeker mentioned probes, looks like scopewa has got some more of the older ones in stock now. At least by the pics, these look like the same as the ones I bought years ago: https://www.ebay.com/itm/182595327054Looks like he's also got some 200MHz P2200s in again... but the rise time seems a little high, IIRC. https://www.ebay.com/itm/182547468622Anybody here got any intel on these?
Interesting. How flat are they, though? I'm less concerned about them going beyond rated 3dB and more concerned about significant peaks and valleys within the operating range.
Quote from: mnementh on May 12, 2019, 05:28:23 pmQuote from: bitseeker on May 12, 2019, 05:16:25 pmThanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA). I wouldn't go THAT far... ESPECIALLY after that statement. LOL! There's general public sanity, engineering sanity, and TEA sanity. Very different things.
Quote from: bitseeker on May 13, 2019, 12:35:28 amInteresting. How flat are they, though? I'm less concerned about them going beyond rated 3dB and more concerned about significant peaks and valleys within the operating range.Ok Ok, will improve my setup and produce some proper results with screenshot and everything
Yeah, I don't have anything even marginally trustworthy signal-gen wise; my "Good luck" with the scopewa P6100s is based entirely on side-by-side use with my last intact original Tek probe. Construction seems half-decent though.Quote from: bitseeker on May 13, 2019, 12:23:40 amQuote from: mnementh on May 12, 2019, 05:28:23 pmQuote from: bitseeker on May 12, 2019, 05:16:25 pmThanks for confirming my sanity. It's an odd architecture since they do bring out the first and second IF. Had they brought out the LO with them, you'd have all the source signals for a straightforward tracking gen. Must've been intentional.I'll try using max hold with a sweeping sig gen before modding. Who knows, an SA with TG might be just around the corner (or a VNA). I wouldn't go THAT far... ESPECIALLY after that statement. LOL! There's general public sanity, engineering sanity, and TEA sanity. Very different things. Agreed! In principle, at least. In practice, however, only one of those three actually has any presence in our prime material plane of existence. mnem*out of practice*
Quote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 11:26:16 pmQuote from: tautech on May 12, 2019, 11:19:34 pmQuote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 10:55:38 pmQuote from: tautech on May 12, 2019, 09:36:42 pmQuote from: med6753 on May 12, 2019, 09:26:32 pmMe: Hi Mom, did you get my flowers?Mom: No, I didn't.Me: They were supposed to be delivered Thursday.Mom: Sorry, no flowers.After I get off the phone with her I'm loaded for bear to call the flower place and bitch them out and get a refund. So I pull up my order. Look at it. Uh-oh. I screwed up. I put down May 16th delivery rather than May 9th delivery. DO'H I think I'll crawl back into my hole. In your defense, didn't you have a not so easily overlooked distraction visiting ? Nope, no distractions so no defense other then a plain old screw-up. I'll leave you to dig yourself out of that hole then. You know how Mothers are. Always forgiving. She said that when the flowers from my other brother die she'll have mine to appreciate. Can't beat that logic....and it gets me out of the doghouse. Are both the 9th and 16th significant dates for Mom then? If so then that's reason why she is so forgiving. [emoji849]Sent from my POT-LX1 using Tapatalk
Sunday was "Mother's Day" here in the US. Was it not also Mother's Day in the UK?
Quote from: med6753 on May 13, 2019, 07:04:02 amSunday was "Mother's Day" here in the US. Was it not also Mother's Day in the UK?... but it WAS here in Oz.
No different dates. This causes us much panic every year whenever you lot go mother's day crazy.Edit: I'm happy with my mother. She complains that it is a commercialised extension of a religious holiday (lent) here and refuses to acknowledge its existence or accept any gifts as she's a raving anti-capitalist and atheist.
Quote from: Brumby on May 13, 2019, 08:36:24 am Another hobby ?