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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Buying a Bluetooth or zigbee module and tacking it on a mcu module is not the same as designing a circuit all the way to the circuit board and then building and testing it just saying
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123850 ·
Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Absolutely agree with Dave - how any of the buiders canwrite a line of code, that might just replace a piece of hardware or make it easier to use ?? Quoting Lothar baier <Lothar@...>:
By Bruce · #123849 ·
Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
...and Bluetooth and Zigbee and LoRa...They certainly ARE doing RF, just mostly not the same RF that you did. And that is ok! True, all true. But to assert that it's somehow not an area of interest
By Dave McGuire · #123848 ·
Re: Test Downtime Costing You Money?
As I said before its marketing material nothing more nothing less ¡­.. Most companies bitch about the cost of downtime but at the same time managers frown on buying or holding backup equipment just
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123847 ·
Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
They might be building stuff but nothing that has to do with RF , maybe microcontrollers robots and drones .... As far as HAM RADIO goes ( and I am a HAM btw ) 'giving them out " is about correct
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123846 ·
Re: Test Downtime Costing You Money?
wrote: Obviously losses due to downtime are going to be higher with larger companies, To me, the number is meaningless. What meaning can you attach to what Keysight wrote? I expect lives have been
By Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd · #123845 ·
Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
No, the kids aren't buying microwave parts at hamfests. This is what I was meant when I said "it is DIFFERENT now". They are buying parts from Adafruit, SparkFun, and Amazon, and hundreds of other
By Dave McGuire · #123844 ·
Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Dave with all due respect , I been selling microwave parts at local hamfests for over 10 years so I know the crowd that builds stuff , license statistics mean nothing , there might be more hams than
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123843 ·
BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Wrong. Electronics as a hobby is far, far larger than it has ever been an ANY time in the past. You're apparently not looking in the right places. It is DIFFERENT now, and that's ok. Kids aren't
By Dave McGuire · #123842 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
They do, and they have grown significantly in size. They had to move to a bigger place last year. -- Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR kyrrin@... "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green)
By Bruce Lane · #123841 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Gone are the days of DRMOs and surplus stores ¡­.. yeah I hear dave on that one but lets face it the entire ham /hobby scene has been changing , back when I started with electronics at 15 years of
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123840 ·
Re: 8903B Gooey Crystal
GUYS. Enough with this. I am getting off-list complaints about off-topic BS. Everyone knows California is insane, there's no reason to beat it to death here. -Dave, list moderator, getting very
By Dave McGuire · #123839 ·
Re: 8903B Gooey Crystal
EVERYTHING causes cancer here in California.? It's honestly a big joke because just about every store/business has the sign posted. -Dave
By Dave Seiter · #123838 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
We had one in dallas when I moved back in 96 I hated the store with a passion , they hardly ever had the items they advertised in the sale flyer and tried to upsell you , they were ok on tools and
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123837 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
I don't miss Fry's; for computer items they were ok, but every time I went looking for components, they never had what I wanted, or what they had was seriously overpriced. -Dave
By Dave Seiter · #123836 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Annoying- just because a garden variety scope set up was used as part of a test procedure for some fighter in the 70's, it's "controlled".? I got two notices in the late 2000s for Tek auction items
By Dave Seiter · #123835 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Frys is gone, liquidated completely everywhere. Dead 2 years most everywhere with no stock in the store prior to that. Sorry Jim
By James Stephens · #123834 ·
Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Hey you still have Frys?! Here in Austin tx ours is long gone..
By Tom Phillips · #123833 ·
Re: OT: Anyone know where to get EDC manuals?
Helpfulness sometimes depends a lot on your email extensions , I had companies where I did not get any response from my private email but as soon as the email came from my .nsn or later utd.edu email
By Lothar baier <Lothar@...> · #123832 ·
Re: 8903B Gooey Crystal
Dear All, Well more recent far eastern-sourced plastic products have displayed much shorter lifetimes than the hp foam- I have a radio, where the case went gooey in less than 5 years and cable where
By alwyn.seeds1 · #123831 ·