Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[AVGresponding]

1966, the only year England ever won the World Cup...   

@grizewald you should watch/read "The Andromeda Strain"  (re furry plastic)

That empty space... it looks like a homebrew kit scope. Those are some long-ass rods through those range selector wafer switches   

All those trimmers are clearly there so that you can do all your own LCR maths on the front end!   

Either that or the designers were like, "well, we think it might work, but we're not 100% sure..."

[mnementh]

In case anyone is interested......I'll log into Discord Saturday at 2100 UTC (I guess that's early Sunday AM for OZ/NZ).

Please join if you can for I fear the dragon may stalk me.   

You might just be lucky, he could still be chasing first girlfriend around on his X-box 

One can only hope. 

Donchoo knowwittt!     I was up til 3AM; Even the boi is jelly... 

I had forgotten just how capable a little entertainment center these things are. It still has current apps for Netflix, Amazon Video, and HULU. I'm still trying to make it connect to the Canadian Amazon Video servers, but that's the ONLY thing it doesn't do; I might not need a Roku for the Dark Lord Regza I just resurrected... 

mnem
Haven't had a gamer hangover like this in years...

[mnementh]

And I have another question:

What is this "Hidden user" anyway?

It's mnem....stalking me. 

Yeah, you'd better watch out!   

Just because I promised I would stalk ONLY YOU, does not mean I'm ALWAYS stalking you. 

mnem
But you never know...   

[Cerebus]

Shitty weather is going to marvellous. I'm getting kitted out and going to hit the Chiltern hills (Ivinghoe Beacon) after lunch before it gets dark. 10 miles of being pissed on is my idea of a good afternoon

[Fx: Eric Idle voice] "Like showers do we squire? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink."

[Cerebus]

What are we? A force to be reckoned with? 

Bloody Americans and their spelling! That's "farce to be reckoned with".

[Specmaster]

In case anyone is interested......I'll log into Discord Saturday at 2100 UTC (I guess that's early Sunday AM for OZ/NZ).

Please join if you can for I fear the dragon may stalk me.   

You might just be lucky, he could still be chasing first girlfriend around on his X-box 

One can only hope. 

Donchoo knowwittt!     I was up til 3AM; Even the boi is jelly... 

I had forgotten just how capable a little entertainment center these things are. It still has current apps for Netflix, Amazon Video, and HULU. I'm still trying to make it connect to the Canadian Amazon Video servers, but that's the ONLY thing it doesn't do; I might not need a Roku for the Dark Lord Regza I just resurrected... 

mnem
Haven't had a gamer hangover like this in years...

I think you should have a son - father chat and explain to him that very few women in real life have figures or dress like Lara does before he get as infatuated as you have with her. 

[PA0PBZ]

First task is printing a graticule holder to fit on the metal pegs around the screen and then get a 10 x 8 graticule printed.

Are you sure it should be 10 x 8? The screen looks square and both the vertical and the horizontal units are in cm.

[Specmaster]

The weather for Sunday looks to be very bad with very strong winds and some structural damage and trees affected, not really the sort of weather to take on a 200-mile round trip for what could be a wasted journey, I'll have to think about Harwell some more tomorrow. 

[Specmaster]

First task is printing a graticule holder to fit on the metal pegs around the screen and then get a 10 x 8 graticule printed.

Are you sure it should be 10 x 8? The screen looks square and both the vertical and the horizontal units are in cm.

Yep, just googled it, all images show 10 x 8

[bd139]

The weather for Sunday looks to be very bad with very strong winds and some structural damage and trees affected, not really the sort of weather to take on a 200-mile round trip for what could be a wasted journey, I'll have to think about Harwell some more tomorrow. 

Yeah I’m having second thoughts on going for a walk now as well. Might postpone until following weekend.

Still doing Harwell. Hopefully the traders will turn up

[WastelandTek]

+1 for low poly boobs

[Cerebus]

Re GPS malfunctioning. Were you within scope of this:


Notification of GPS jamming exercise: Stanford Training Area (STANTA), Norfolk

Dates: The exercise will run over the period 03 Feb to 14 February 2020.

Times: 09:00 – 19:00

Location: Jammers will be placed Stanford Training Area (STANTA) within 3 km of WGS84 Lat/Lon 52°32’30”N 0°43’52”E (British National Grid reference TL85305 97261) affecting GNSS receivers at the following heights (AGL/AMSL)/distances:

2m AGL: Receivers with clear line of sight to the jammer location to a maximum possible range of 23km.

25m AGL: Receivers with clear line of sight to the jammer location to a maximum possible range of 23km.

70m AGL: Receivers with a clear ling of sight to the jammer location to a maximum possible range of 32.3km.

5,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

10,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

20,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

30,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

40,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

Frequencies:

GPS L1 band (1575.42MHz +/- 15MHz)

GLONASS L1 band (1597.55MHz – 1605.89MHz)

[WastelandTek]

US Navy just wrapped up a major GPS jamming operation off the coast of Florida recently as well.

[med6753]

In case anyone is interested......I'll log into Discord Saturday at 2100 UTC (I guess that's early Sunday AM for OZ/NZ).

Please join if you can for I fear the dragon may stalk me.   

You might just be lucky, he could still be chasing first girlfriend around on his X-box 

One can only hope. 

Donchoo knowwittt!     I was up til 3AM; Even the boi is jelly... 

I had forgotten just how capable a little entertainment center these things are. It still has current apps for Netflix, Amazon Video, and HULU. I'm still trying to make it connect to the Canadian Amazon Video servers, but that's the ONLY thing it doesn't do; I might not need a Roku for the Dark Lord Regza I just resurrected... 

mnem
Haven't had a gamer hangover like this in years...

I think you should have a son - father chat and explain to him that very few women in real life have figures or dress like Lara does before he get as infatuated as you have with her. 

Most games involving "real" people present an unrealistic and unachievable view of the human experience anyway so why should Lara be any different?

[WastelandTek]

leave it to adolescent males to have the capacity to sexualize a small collection of triangles

I still remember that forward handstand move she would do.

[VK5RC]

Some years ago I thought I would read some of the Hippocratic arguments - interesting but long winded.
One section I remember was about the definition of a 'good man', sexual vigour got included in the discussion. Hippocrates, an old man at that stage commented that he was glad of the fading of his libido as an older man as it was 'an ardent task master' in his youth!

[mnementh]

leave it to adolescent males to have the capacity to sexualize a small collection of triangles two large collections of triangles
I still remember that forward handstand move she would do.

There... fixed that for you... 

mnem
*toddles off to do battle with the Dark Lord Regza again*

[grizewald]

First task is printing a graticule holder to fit on the metal pegs around the screen and then get a 10 x 8 graticule printed.

Are you sure it should be 10 x 8? The screen looks square and both the vertical and the horizontal units are in cm.

I thought the screen looked square as well to start with, but looks can be deceiving. Here's a photo of one with its graticule installed...

[Specmaster]

Some years ago I thought I would read some of the Hippocratic arguments - interesting but long winded.
One section I remember was about the definition of a 'good man', sexual vigour got included in the discussion. Hippocrates, an old man at that stage commented that he was glad of the fading of his libido as an older man as it was 'an ardent task master' in his youth!

[Mr. Scram]

Re GPS malfunctioning. Were you within scope of this:


Notification of GPS jamming exercise: Stanford Training Area (STANTA), Norfolk

Dates: The exercise will run over the period 03 Feb to 14 February 2020.

Times: 09:00 – 19:00

Location: Jammers will be placed Stanford Training Area (STANTA) within 3 km of WGS84 Lat/Lon 52°32’30”N 0°43’52”E (British National Grid reference TL85305 97261) affecting GNSS receivers at the following heights (AGL/AMSL)/distances:

2m AGL: Receivers with clear line of sight to the jammer location to a maximum possible range of 23km.

25m AGL: Receivers with clear line of sight to the jammer location to a maximum possible range of 23km.

70m AGL: Receivers with a clear ling of sight to the jammer location to a maximum possible range of 32.3km.

5,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

10,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

20,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

30,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

40,000ft AMSL: To a maximum possible range of 55km.

Frequencies:

GPS L1 band (1575.42MHz +/- 15MHz)

GLONASS L1 band (1597.55MHz – 1605.89MHz)

I don't think so, but definitely a reasonable suggestion.

[xrunner]

Message from Ebay seller in China to me, they can't ship my RF MOSFET for a repair I'm doing due to the Corona Virus. But I should be safe when they do -

Hello friend,
Thanks for patient.
if we could went to out work until Feb 19th,Which means we are safe then,
and we will disinfect our hands and our parts with alcohol,
also,our government tell us ,the virus could not live with our people or animal,
so we think the virus could not live in the parts we ship to you,
especially for such long time delivery,
hoping you could undertanding,thanks

[Kosmic]

...especially for such long time delivery,...

At least he ackowledge that their shipping is slow 

also,our government tell us ,the virus could not live with our people or animal,

Not sure what he meant by that. This virus is pretty bad, probably going to do damage for multiple months 

[xrunner]

Not sure what he meant by that. This virus is pretty bad, probably going to do damage for multiple months 

Me either. I think that's the problem isn't it? The virus lives pretty well with people. 

[WastelandTek]

I was at my local big box hardware the other day.  The PPE section looks like something out of Venezuela.  They were limiting mask purchases to 10 per customer.

[worsthorse]

Not sure what he meant by that. This virus is pretty bad, probably going to do damage for multiple months 

Me either. I think that's the problem isn't it? The virus lives pretty well with people. 

I think he means "the virus cannot live without people or animals",  that is, it can't live outside a host, at least for very long.