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Re: Commercial interest ?
Financial interest makes sense if you start a company and want to make money, if i would have the intension to start a business selling replacements for obsolete parts than for sure i would go broke
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9164 ·
Re: Commercial interest ?
I used the stratix because i had a eval board for it on hand, for cost reasons i would not recommend this family ! Cyclone3 are pretty good and Lattice has low cost FPGAs with build in SERDES for
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9163 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
First off, I have no dog in this fight, but it seems to me used laptops, especially lower performance ones, are dirt cheap (>$100) these days. Why not a simple interface that uses the parallel or USB
By J Forster <jfor@...> · #9162 ·
Re: Commercial interest ?
True, within limits. There is a big difference between working on something with real upside potential and supporting something an insrument which is reaching the end of it's service life. The
By J Forster <jfor@...> · #9161 ·
Re: Commercial interest ?
I have read with some amusement and disappointment the responses you received from your offer to make gears for people. I personally thought it was a great offer and as soon as I need any gears I'll
By swingbyte <swingbyte@...> · #9160 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
HP must have been an amazing place to work in in the 1970s. It seems they did a lot of R&D in those years. I'm extremely grateful for their old service notes - more information and explanation than
By swingbyte <swingbyte@...> · #9159 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
there are several companies that sell surplus LCD for about $100 or less, earthlcd is one example, changing to LCD would also have the advantage that you get some additional function like printer
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9158 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
HP call the board that controls the storage tube persistence, erase etc the storage assembly. I have been thinking of replacing the tube with and LCD - but that would cost more than the SA!! Unless
By swingbyte <swingbyte@...> · #9157 ·
Commercial interest ?
One thing that comes up more and more often from people on this newsgroup is the .... im not doing anything unlessi get paid for it ! dont get me wrong i like money as much as anyone else and im
By microwaveengineer1968 <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9156 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
I have a degree, but the truth be known I learned at least 95% of what I know by playing on the bench, taking things apart, modifying radio gear, building my own test gear when I was a kid, and then
By Peter Gottlieb <hpnpilot@...> · #9155 ·
CRT Restoration and Testing, B&K 465 Available
Hello to all, Lots of discussion about restoring CRTs lately. FYI, I have a BK 465 CRT tester/restorer available. Good conditon, with manuals and cabling. Never was able to sell it at the
By Jim Reese · #9154 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
Building a good YIG based synthesizer has its challenges i admitt, first problem is that usually YIGs are not as good in phasenoise to begin with, next thing is that you have to design your drivers
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9153 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
Hmmm sounds kinda familiar, im going trough this cycle every few years, usually when im employed i packrat stuff especially microwave parts, machinery and test gear to build up my lab until my wife
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9152 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
Hmm, I see I left some room for that to be taken the wrong way. When I said, "Eventually I feel compelled to return to the workbench, where I spend a lot of time and money answering questions that
By John Miles <jmiles@...> · #9151 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
i have the same problem john deling with freeloaders that dont want to crank their heads or geet b their hands dirty maybe we should go on strike for them
By arthurok · #9150 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
Heh... I tend to go for a couple of years at a time without doing much electronics work at all, selling all my gear on eBay and going back to the real world to rebuild my finances. Eventually I feel
By John Miles <jmiles@...> · #9149 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
one problem i find is that the market for stuff like this is soo small that it isnt worth my time. i cant afford to spend alot of time on things that have very little
By arthurok · #9148 ·
Re: HP8565 hacking/mods
Keep in mind that there's no benefit to digitizing post-detected trace signals (x and y) at rates beyond the bandwidth of the widest video filter, typically a few MHz at most. And if you digitize the
By John Miles <jmiles@...> · #9147 ·
Re: Hp-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
you might want to try ebay, another way is to find the connectors or strip them out of a old unit and then make a PCB board for it, all you need is the spacing for the board. If you dont have any
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9146 ·
Re: Hp-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
the coax contacts are made by ITT Cannon as well as some other companies, you can buy them from mouser, digi key or pasternack, the only problem is that they are crimped on the outside so you need a
By lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...> · #9145 ·
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