Author Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread (Read 18733506 times)

med6753 · « **Reply #64400 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:22:49 pm »

It took some real careful and intense twiddling with the diddle stick but it's calibrated.

med6753 · « **Reply #64401 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:24:20 pm »

Quote from: 0culus on July 25, 2020, 05:22:25 pm

Also, unknown at this time whether I will be in discord this afternoon. Depends on how long some errands take. If I join, it will be later.

I'll be on and I'll have plenty of popcorn.

Saskia · « **Reply #64402 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:31:52 pm »

apropos popcorn: https://youtu.be/AvDvTnTGjgQ

Specmaster · « **Reply #64403 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:34:47 pm »

Quote from: med6753 on July 25, 2020, 04:55:02 pm

Do I need to make more ?

Yep, you make the popcorn and I'll bring the drinks.

mnementh · « **Reply #64404 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:39:12 pm »

Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/free-coff-wait

mnem
"I'll have a tall burnt offering with 16 sugars, 8 cream, a little diabetic coma and a side of encryption...?"

bd139 · « **Reply #64405 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:41:41 pm »

That gave me brain cancer.

bitseeker · « **Reply #64406 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:44:20 pm »

I like that "coupon code".

mnementh · « **Reply #64407 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:45:56 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 25, 2020, 05:41:41 pm

That gave me brain cancer.

It was a special delivery; just for C, Spec and you.

Any collateral damage is just foam on the frappe'.

mnem
daily FTW!

mansaxel · « **Reply #64408 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:47:19 pm »

I ignored the popcorn, and went for duck with cherry sauce and a Chateau de Melin 2017. (Hautes Côtes de Beaune) I'm OK now. How are everybody else?

TEA: I went to check my DI boxes, and they look similar. The working one and the allegedly broken one. I Think! that it might have been some junk in the pad switch. OTOH, it runs just nicely with 1V RMS in, unpadded, so I think I'll not bother too much.

med6753 · « **Reply #64409 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:47:23 pm »

Quote from: Saskia on July 25, 2020, 05:31:52 pm

apropos popcorn: https://youtu.be/AvDvTnTGjgQ

Yes, there's a "K" in knucklehead.

mnementh · « **Reply #64410 on:** July 25, 2020, 05:53:56 pm »

Two, actually.

mnem
*plays it extra loud for the cheap seats*

Specmaster · « **Reply #64411 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:00:09 pm »

Quote from: mnementh on July 25, 2020, 05:53:56 pm

Two, actually.

mnem
*plays it extra loud for the cheap seats*

Only for those that can't spell

mansaxel · « **Reply #64412 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:02:29 pm »

Quote from: worsthorse on July 25, 2020, 05:10:44 pm

I find myself, through no fault of my own, with a partner who actively encourages my RF and TE obsessions, including the backpacking/wilderness sub-category of the former. I do the same for her, so in addition to the shelves of gear and parts in the furnace room, there is a storage room filled with ikebana containers, dried flowers, and cooly weird tools for working with flowers.

I do think I get the better end of the deal as her hobby fills our home with beautiful flower arrangements while mine results in weird burning smells, loud bursts of static, and unsightly overhead wires in our side yard.

You and me both. Enabler, Mark 1 Mod 3, also known as my wife, is very supportive of my ideosynchrasies including the TE obsession. And I'm helping her with various rabbit holes she's got a tendency to topple into, like silversmithing. I'm the happiest nerd in the world.

GreyWoolfe · « **Reply #64413 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:21:31 pm »

Quote from: VK5RC on July 24, 2020, 04:50:09 am

Quote from: Cerebus on July 23, 2020, 07:27:28 pm
Quote from: bd139 on July 23, 2020, 09:12:43 am
Quote from: tautech on July 23, 2020, 08:58:31 am
You're all just jealous 'cause you can't lick you own balls !

Humans invented money so they can pay someone else to lick our balls.

You don't need money for that, just some beef gravy and a dog. I've always been a bit suspicious of "dog people"....
Oh FFS Cats lick their arse, that is part of the reason why a cat bite is worse than a dog bite from a bacterial point of view.

The issue is not that they lick their arse but they do it on the kitchen counters and the dining room table. Of course, now that they no longer live in my house, I have thought of revenge. Rub their dry food on my sweaty nutsack after a couple of hours in the hot garage. Now enjoy a little wang in your dinner. Every time they would break something of Mrs GreyWoolfe by knocking it on the floor, I would threaten the stepdaughter to take her furballs and make cat gow mein out of them. She thought I was kidding.

No, I don't need money, beef gravy or a dog, though I have 2. We just have to remember to lock the dogs out of the bedroom. We left them in the bedroom once and they both jumped on the bed thinking she was trying to kill me.

Quote from: worsthorse on July 25, 2020, 05:10:44 pm

unsightly overhead wires in our side yard.

You are obviously not using the proper colored insulation to make them fade into the background.

When I had my 80M full wave loop around the entire property, even Mrs GreyWoolfe forgot about it after a while. Unfortunately, the loop came down when we ended up having to have 3 trees removed before last years' hurricane season due to disease, 2 of them were corner anchor points and the 3rd gave some really good height to one of the long legs. I guess I am in a low point right now, don't really miss being on the air.

mnementh · « **Reply #64414 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:25:03 pm »

60GHz band wants YOU.

mnem

Cerebus · « **Reply #64415 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:25:26 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 25, 2020, 05:41:41 pm

That gave me brain cancer.

Well, it was from a "daily WTF" codesod, so...

tggzzz · « **Reply #64416 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:31:04 pm »

Quote from: mnementh on July 25, 2020, 06:25:03 pm

60GHz band wants YOU.

Since that's the "oxygen hole", nobody else would notice.

bitseeker · « **Reply #64417 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:37:50 pm »

Quote from: ArthurDent on July 07, 2020, 04:03:09 pm

...meanwhile in New Hampshire, USA.

Hehe...

Owner: M. Harold Ohmz, Attorney at Law
Monogram: MHO

Specmaster · « **Reply #64418 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:50:12 pm »

Now this is what a real repair queue looks like. Geez I just wish I had half that space for my lab

mansaxel · « **Reply #64419 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:51:49 pm »

Ok. I'm in NO NEED of help. I'm just right. At the right place.

And, I just happened to pay only a little bit too much for a 8060 in reasonable condition. Got a "you looked at this, mate, here's a nice price for you" offer, that expired, counteroffered 60% of the offer on the original listing , and got a reasonably good counter-counter-offer that I accepted.

And, as I wrote upthread, the side-push-button Flukes have place in my TE pre-history. Gotta fill that hole.

And, to make a travesty of Kate Bush;

Ooh, it's hard on the buyer,
Now his part is over.
Now starts the craft of the waiting for GSP.

bd139 · « **Reply #64420 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:52:24 pm »

Quote from: Specmaster on July 25, 2020, 06:50:12 pm

Now this is what a real repair queue looks like. Geez I just wish I had half that space for my lab

Look what you can achieve if you don’t get married!

Specmaster · « **Reply #64421 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:53:49 pm »

Apart from the fact he is married

med6753 · « **Reply #64422 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:57:17 pm »

Quote from: bd139 on July 25, 2020, 06:52:24 pm

Quote from: Specmaster on July 25, 2020, 06:50:12 pm
Now this is what a real repair queue looks like. Geez I just wish I had half that space for my lab

Look what you can achieve if you don’t get married!

I just watched that video. I feel so inadequate.

bd139 · « **Reply #64423 on:** July 25, 2020, 06:58:48 pm »

Quote from: Specmaster on July 25, 2020, 06:53:49 pm

Apart from the fact he is married

I do not believe it

bd139 · « **Reply #64424 on:** July 25, 2020, 07:00:01 pm »

Quote from: mansaxel on July 25, 2020, 06:51:49 pm

Ok. I'm in NO NEED of help. I'm just right. At the right place.

And, I just happened to pay only a little bit too much for a 8060 in reasonable condition. Got a "you looked at this, mate, here's a nice price for you" offer, that expired, counteroffered 60% of the offer on the original listing , and got a reasonably good counter-counter-offer that I accepted.

And, as I wrote upthread, the side-push-button Flukes have place in my TE pre-history. Gotta fill that hole.

And, to make a travesty of Kate Bush;

Ooh, it's hard on the buyer,
Now his part is over.
Now starts the craft of the waiting for GSP.

Hahaha congratulations


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