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Re: HP - a summary of what went wrong.
Carly Fiorina (where is she now?) did exactly what the Board of Directors TOLD her to do...no more-no less.
On Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 04:53:35 PM PDT, RFI-EMI-GUY <rhyolite@...> wrote:
Two words: Carly Fiorina. Lets not forget her, a TERRIBLE CEO! I had stock in the HP company which was at the time a Test and Measurement company that served many industries. It was a well known and respected company. The HP computers and printers were solely to support automation of the T&M market. They made superb products. The introduction of Compaq was sort of a dilution of the product reputation. The spinoffs ruined the company value and upset the product market. I lost a ton of money on the HP stock and the spinoff. The stock value plummeted. It was a ripoff of shareholder equity.
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Re: HP - a summary of what went wrong.
Two words: Carly Fiorina. Lets not forget her, a TERRIBLE CEO! I had stock in the HP company which was at the time a Test and Measurement company that served many industries. It was a well known and respected company. The HP computers and printers were solely to support automation of the T&M market. They made superb products. The introduction of Compaq was sort of a dilution of the product reputation. The spinoffs ruined the company value and upset the product market. I lost a ton of money on the HP stock and the spinoff. The stock value plummeted. It was a ripoff of shareholder equity.
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Re: HP - a summary of what went wrong.
Hi Don,
At first I thought you were referring to the years I was at HP (77-2002).? Things were fell apart on the instrument side at that time as well.??
I enjoyed working in the customer service center where it was a full repair and cal operation.? ?We could fix everything to the component level.? ? ?Rarely was a board replaced.??Then the instruments became assy level repair.? The 8753 was the first one that I recall but there were others like the 8920 etc.? ?Also fixed prices were established some where in there.? ? ? There was a fixed price for a repair, repair and cal and just cal and also a mini-repair price if the issue was very simple.? ? The cost of the assys were crazy.? ? Component level repair was no longer possible.? ?
Then the rep/cal facility became a cal only "hub".? ?If a repair was needed the instrument was shipped to Roseville, CA.? ? Also an on-site calibration service began.? ? The on-site cal work was too much like the stuff I hated to do in the air force were we traveled hours to get to a site and hours to get back to the base and 8 hours on the site.? Having to stay in a hotel away from home was not for me.? ? I hung on for a few more years in the power supply division.? ?After I left the power supply division,? the ex-repair / cal-only center was shut down and moved to PA and the entire facility was sold off.? The power supply div engineering / marketing dept moved somewhere close by and manufacturing was moved off-shore.? ?
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Re: HP - a summary of what went wrong.
Hi Don:
In my mind the real HP is Agilent/Keysight.? The company called HP is the computer spin off. -- Have Fun, Brooke Clarke axioms: 1. The extent to which you can fix or improve something will be limited by how well you understand how it works. 2. Everybody, with no exceptions, holds false beliefs. |
Re: Looking for the manual for the HP H04-3460B or 3460B opt H04
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Thanks David, I truly appreciate this.? Now maybe I can get it back up and running again.
Richard Parrish
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of factory via groups.io <bobradios11@...>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2025 11:09 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Looking for the manual for the HP H04-3460B or 3460B opt H04 ?
As requested I've scanned the "Modifications specification for the H04-3460A Digital Voltmeter", this is used with the standard 3460A manual part number 03460-90001 (not scanned as it's already available
from ArtekManuals), I've cleaned the pages a bit and added a pdf here;
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Re: A homemade diode power sensor for HP meters
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Reading this thread reminded me of my 431 & 432. Anyone know where I can find a copy of the 8402A power meter calibrator manual? Not at the usual suspects. John??? KK6IL On 4/10/2025 10:10 AM, David Feldman
via groups.io wrote:
I went back to the start of the thread to capture local copies of the various cited references. Most of the links are dead, however, internet archive wayback machine got me to almost all of them, so I have the files cached here now (mostly commercial reference material from HP and Boonton, along with Tobias' hand drawn schematics (I don't believe Tobias published schematics after his first few drafts, and don't know if he maintains a repository anywhere.) |
Re: Looking for the manual for the HP H04-3460B or 3460B opt H04
As requested I've scanned the "Modifications specification for the H04-3460A Digital Voltmeter", this is used with the standard 3460A manual part number 03460-90001 (not scanned as it's already available from ArtekManuals), I've cleaned the pages a bit and added a pdf here;
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Re: A homemade diode power sensor for HP meters
Hi Sergey,
Many institutions have recently decided that they need to know the location of their customers. For those that are ignorant about internet fraud, using Microsoft and Apple products, out-of-the-box, suffices, as they will all blab everything they know about you to anyone that asks during a web connection. Those with moderate knowledge of such things often use a variety of nonsense blockers that abort such requests for location as a matter of course... or spoof them, giving a random location. Those that use VNC, are skipped around the world until they are virtually at another location, so any information their browsers give is someone elses. Brave is particularly bad in this regard, as it dutifully blocks or spoofs just about everything asked that might identify you and your location... So, unless you give a little, most of commerce will ignore you, and you will be as lonely as the lighthouse keeper on the edge of the universe... I find I have to allow brave to give my location, for certain transactions, or they fail to work for me. -Chuck Harris On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT) "Sergey Kubushyn" <ksi@...> wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2025, Sergey Kubushyn wrote: |
Added Folder /All HP, Agilent and Keysight instruments in folders by part numbers/8000 to 8999/8481A, 8482A and 8483A Power Sensors/A homemade diode power sensor for HP meters 92636
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David Feldman <wb0gaz@...> added folder /All HP, Agilent and Keysight instruments in folders by part numbers/8000 to 8999/8481A, 8482A and 8483A Power Sensors/A homemade diode power sensor for HP meters 92636 Description: |
Re: The care of RF connectors
Aside from HP and Mini Circuits there are numerous other documents available from other sources talking about his subject.
I used to attend seminars at NBS (now NIST) when living in Boulder, Colorado Some of them touched on connector characteristics and care. I was surprised to learn about the limited number of mate/unmate cycles on some connectors before they degraded the signals passing through them. Greg |
Re: A homemade diode power sensor for HP meters
How about this location: David, thanks for collecting these files.? I was not able to collect the files from the now-broken references so I appreciate your efforts. Lynn C. On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 5:27?PM David Feldman via <wb0gaz=[email protected]> wrote: Solder-tail version of the same connector, also from Newark, also at unusual unit price. |
Re: A homemade diode power sensor for HP meters
Solder-tail version of the same connector, also from Newark, also at unusual unit price.
Roy - if this is contrary to group guidelines, please accept my apology (I presumed that this would be of interest due to the very specialized nature of the parts and the prior reference to an ebay seller being defunct.) Below is a listing of the file names I retrieved using internet archive during my brief review of the thread this morning (anyone could do this, but of course it will be convenient to have them cached online). I've not uploaded them anywhere at this point - they can be retrieved using internet archive to search on each of the (defunct) URLs that were in the postings from earlier times. If someone can tell me where these files should be uploaded, I'll be happy to do that. (DOS command of the directory where I put the files retrieved) Directory of D:\848x homebrew power sensor 04/10/2025 05:22 PM <DIR> . 04/10/2025 05:22 PM <DIR> .. 04/10/2025 10:54 AM 2,658,520 08484-90019-PowerSensor.pdf 04/10/2025 11:01 AM 5,261,326 1975-10.pdf 04/10/2025 10:51 AM 4,021,004 20181117_170657.jpg 04/10/2025 10:50 AM 3,350,675 20181117_173101.jpg 04/10/2025 10:52 AM 234,284 8481schem.png 04/10/2025 10:55 AM 11,393,180 8484a.pdf 04/10/2025 10:56 AM 211,615 HP 11683A H01 ops_service.pdf 04/10/2025 11:03 AM 6,653,962 WTG_RefGuide_F1128_sm_web.pdf |
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