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Getting an advanced degree is not for everyone.? Just because you can doenn't necessarily mean you should.? A few lines of work, and a few jobs, require these degrees but the vast majority do
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Peter Gottlieb
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Re: Warning to buy equipment on Ebay on auctions using GSP (global shipping programme)
Thanks Chuck,
That was a very interesting post.
Matt
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Matt Corbett
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread. Books!
I have a technical library with about 1500 volumes, including the afore-mentioned McGraw-Hill Series in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as what I believe to be a complete set of the
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Dave Daniel
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Re: Warning to buy equipment on Ebay on auctions using GSP (global shipping programme)
Not that this is anywhere near the charter for this group,
but the reason this happens is fairly straight forward.
The United States gets into various alliances, and confrontations
with countries
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Chuck Harris
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Your average course textbook is roughly 150 USD or so. Making an
Ebook out of them, the students are "only" charged 70 to 100 USD. Some
order the dead tree copies, some don't. "look! we're saving
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Harvey White
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Re: Rad Labs -
They were originally published by McGraw Hill (red cloth bindings) and later republished by Boston Technical Publishers (lesser-quality gray bindings). It took me quite awhile to collect all volumes.
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Dave Daniel
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Wanted: side panels for HP 5071A Cesium standard.
I'm looking for a pair of side panels with carrying strap for an HP-vintage 5071A standard.
The part number appears to be 05071-00037.? I don't know if this part is unique to the 5071A or if other
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John Ackermann N8UR
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I thought I had started a new topic. My apologies if I did not. I don't want the discussion here either. It grew out of the Rad Lab discussion. I will, to a degree, indulge people if some want to
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Reginald Beardsley
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread.
Michael A. Terrell
Michael A. Terrell
Michael A. TerrellI found a copy of Skolnik's RADAR Handbook at a flea market for $1, and one book dealer would hold any electronics related books back
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Michael A. Terrell
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Guys, please!
This is still a hijacked thread regarding power detectors on a group about HP Instruments.
The world has (more than) enough on-line places for this sort of topic but I suggest this is
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Adrian Nicol
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Hello,
let me comment on this aspect:
This is the fault of today's university administration. I could tell
stories, both from personal experience as student and from my exwifes
consulting agency. In
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Tam Hanna
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread.
Mike-
Can’t help with the big picture but I’m after a 1932 first edition of Terman-should you have one you want to relinquish…Not found anything earlier than the 1937 edition since I started
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Dave Brown
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Réf. : Re: Réf. : Re: 50 ohm thermocouples was RE: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] 478A power sensor recal for HP meters (was diode mounts)
where .. where !
as usual
in the box with some transistors
under another box containning some screws
behind the big parcel on the floor !
same problem here !
hi ...
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F1CHF
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread.
(&) "Oh, Harold!" she breathed, as he frantically fumbled with the restraining fasteners
on her GPIB harness connectors.... [From "Fifty Shades of Gray Pixels"]
Now... what a novel that would
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nigel adams
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Re: Réf. : Re: 50 ohm thermocouples was RE: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] 478A power sensor recal for HP meters (was diode mounts)
Merci Chef! I must have some original HP spare thermistors...... But where......Best 73 de
Harke
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Harke Smits
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread.
See if you can find "Toward Better Photography" by Vincent McGarrett, copyright about 1946 or so. He was my Dad, and he spent a year or more writing the book and took about a thousand pictures.
It
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doug
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread.
Around here, meaning Los Angeles in general, used book stores are getting to be a rarity. Most used books are on the internet. I also buy a lot of books of the non-technical sort, at the bookstores
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: Warning to buy equipment on Ebay on auctions using GSP (global shipping programme)
I once bought some old Fluke?6070A and 6080A signal generators at an online military base auction.? Nothing super high tech: these are 500 MHz and 1 GHz signal generators. To be honest, I wasn't
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Matt Corbett
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Re: OT: Rad Lab thread.
There's definitely a lot of garbage in the book section of most
Goodwill stores. I mean, how many copies of the Twilight books did they
really print? I think ALL of them are on the shelves of
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Dave McGuire
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Also OT: EEVblog forum
I'd like to call attention to the EEVblog.com forum.
I was put off by Dave's YouTube persona and didn't pay attention to it for a long time. Yes, there is no shortage of Bozos, but it is the
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Reginald Beardsley
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