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I was just approved to join in the fun here. For background info:
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?- overall years using HP RF test equipment: approximately 49?
?- currently own 23 items of mostly RF related HP test equipment including Spec Ans, RF sig gens, VNA etc.
?- ?23 years for Microwave Links, Cellular Network Engineering and Cellular Core Network Performance
?-? 13 years at NASA/JPL in Communications Systems Research
?- 4 year EEE degree
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Currently maintaining a government radio repeater system
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?Jim
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Picture is of the home lab before I added the HP8924Cand HP3478A into the stack. The bench surface is rarely this uncluttered!
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Nice lab, Jim!? Another Jim here.? Here's my garage lab.? Jim Ford, Laguna Hills, California, USA?
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM, Jim via groups.io <teotwaki@...> wrote: I was just approved to join in the fun here. For background info:
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?- overall years using HP RF test equipment: approximately 49?
?- currently own 23 items of mostly RF related HP test equipment including Spec Ans, RF sig gens, VNA etc.
?- ?23 years for Microwave Links, Cellular Network Engineering and Cellular Core Network Performance
?-? 13 years at NASA/JPL in Communications Systems Research
?- 4 year EEE degree
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Currently maintaining a government radio repeater system
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?Jim
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Picture is of the home lab before I added the HP8924Cand HP3478A into the stack. The bench surface is rarely this uncluttered!
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Jim #1 (chronological order): welcome, and what a stage entry!
Jim #2: know it very well!
So that's how we play it? A "bench showoff" is on? ;)
No unused surfaces. Well done, Jim!
--Tom
On 9/17/2024 2:21 PM, Jim Ford wrote:
> Nice lab, Jim!? Another Jim here.? Here's my garage lab.
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Hey, Radu? you should have shown your garage before you sold off those power supplies!
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM, Radu Bogdan Dicher <vondicher@...> wrote: Jim #1 (chronological order): welcome, and what a stage entry!
Jim #2: know it very well!
So that's how we play it? A "bench showoff" is on? ;)
No unused surfaces. Well done, Jim!
--Tom
On 9/17/2024 2:21 PM, Jim Ford wrote:
> Nice lab, Jim!? Another Jim here.? Here's my garage lab.
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I'd love to see other benches! On another forum I've seen some "benches" that were to die for personal warehouses of wonderfully organized storage and spacious workbenches.
Some of the minimalist benches were exceedingly clever uses of small spaces and very inspirational too.
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Jim
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Welcome Jim! Here's my bench.? A lab within a lab (work as an in-house engineer for a biotech company). ? 
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Jim. Welcome! This is a great group with a lot of collective wisdom.
Here is my Lab,
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On Sep 17, 2024, at 8:43?PM, Frank Mashockie <fmashockie@...> wrote:
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Welcome Jim! Here's my bench.? A lab within a lab (work as an in-house engineer for a biotech company). ?
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Welcome! Since it seems the thing to share lab pictures:
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Fine, I'll bite.?
Only visible is the left side of the active part of my bench - pic from a few weeks ago, with the projects then, as I'm too comfortable in my living room arm chair right now (where "armchair diagnostics," or PCB designs, and other similar things happen...) to walk over and take a new pic... A little messier than usual, but you know... entropy!?
None of the many units sitting idle (including power supplies, Jim!), and only about half of my metrology standards are visible in this pic. On the eclecticism part of it all, you can see my 11x17 printer for schematics, FM antenna atop, and even my fully mechanical, automatic, handwatch. I decided there's enough chips tracking me!?
I promise you, once I'm wrapped into something at this bench, miraculously, a few square inches or - awe! - square feet materialize and I'm going forward.? Radu.?
On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 8:43?PM Frank Mashockie via <fmashockie= [email protected]> wrote: Welcome Jim! Here's my bench.? A lab within a lab (work as an in-house engineer for a biotech company). ? 
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A neet and compact layout. I had some equipment to shop carts after running out of roo on my bench. That made it easier to take to the Ca lab as well.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 9:11?AM Harold Foster via <halfoster= [email protected]> wrote: Welcome! Since it seems the thing to share lab pictures:
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I agree. My typical layout is similar - a radial (90/45/0/-45/-90) distribution of shelving and tall carts that are all within easy reach (3'-6') of any project. Due to the projects as the picture was taken, that distribution was disturbed, but given most of those are wheeled, it's easy to put back once feasible. It's a deliberate setup.? Radu.? On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 7:36?AM Michael A. Terrell via <terrell.michael.a= [email protected]> wrote:
A neet and compact layout. I had some equipment to shop carts after running out of roo on my bench. That made it easier to take to the Ca lab as well.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 9:11?AM Harold Foster via <halfoster= [email protected]> wrote: Welcome! Since it seems the thing to share lab pictures:
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Jim, ? Nice lab!? I sent a picture of your lab to my daughter in Santa Clarita and she wants to know where you worked in the LA area (we assume).? I have a similar lab as I worked for Motorola in Schaumburg IL. ? Mike ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Jim Ford Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 4:22 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Introduction ? Nice lab, Jim!? Another Jim here.? Here's my garage lab.? Jim Ford, Laguna Hills, California, USA? ? On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM, Jim via groups.io I was just approved to join in the fun here. For background info: ?- overall years using HP RF test equipment: approximately 49? ?- currently own 23 items of mostly RF related HP test equipment including Spec Ans, RF sig gens, VNA etc. ?- ?23 years for Microwave Links, Cellular Network Engineering and Cellular Core Network Performance
?-? 13 years at NASA/JPL in Communications Systems Research Currently maintaining a government radio repeater system Picture is of the home lab before I added the HP8924Cand HP3478A into the stack. The bench surface is rarely this uncluttered!
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A neet and compact layout. I had some equipment to shop carts after running out of roo on my bench. That made it easier to take to the Ca lab as well.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 9:11?AM Harold Foster via <halfoster= [email protected]> wrote: Welcome! Since it seems the thing to share lab pictures:
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On Tuesday 17 September 2024 11:26:03 pm Jim via groups.io wrote: I'd love to see other benches! On another forum I've seen some "benches" that were to die for personal warehouses of wonderfully organized storage and spacious workbenches.
Some of the minimalist benches were exceedingly clever uses of small spaces and very inspirational too. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I *think* that there's a bench underneath all of that "stuff" in the other room... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 01:23 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I *think* that there's a bench underneath all of that "stuff" in the other room...
I think that once enough equipment accumulates that it hides other gear it breeds and, thus, new test equipment.? Sounds likely to me, anyway, but I'm having a tough time selling that explanation to the SO.
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Great to see others' labs!
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Here are my two labs -- the first (my main lab) is in my garage here in Silicon Valley.? Besides what you see, there's a whole bunch of "gee, maybe I could use that in a project," or "that'd be fun to get working," stuff filling every available surface, picked up at various swap-meets and the local surplus stores (now sadly vanished) over the years.? I'm about to hit 70 and have realized that I'll never use a lot of it in the time remaining -- tempus fidgits, after all.? And so I've been carting it off to the local swap-meet to sell.
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The second image is my more recently assembled home-away-from-home lab, again, in a corner of that house's garage.? ?(On the bench is an HP 3430A Nixie-tube DVM that I'm working on).??
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- Jeff, k6jca
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Hi Jim, ? Here is my lab when it is not too messy. I have another section containing about ten instruments near my work desk. Small space, but enough to have fun. ? 
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Wow, I'm impressed, Yves!? You certainly have a lot of space, and a lot of gear to fill it up!? ? ?Jim Ford?
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 2:16 PM, Yves Tardif <yves_tardif@...> wrote: Hi Jim, ? Here is my lab when it is not too messy. I have another section containing about ten instruments near my work desk. Small space, but enough to have fun. ? 
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? ? ? ? I'd love to see other benches! On another forum I've seen some "benches" that were to die for personal warehouses of wonderfully organized storage and spacious workbenches. Some of the minimalist benches were exceedingly clever uses of small spaces and very inspirational too.
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This has morphed into an interesting thread! Here is my modest shop, built into the sliding-door closet of my home office. Close the door and it is out of sight. I see lots of familiar HP and Tek equipment in others' photos. 
Larry Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S10
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-------- Original message -------- From: Jeff Anderson <jca1955@...> Date: 9/18/24 3:40 PM (GMT-08:00) Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Introduction
Great to see others' labs!
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Here are my two labs -- the first (my main lab) is in my garage here in Silicon Valley.? Besides what you see, there's a whole bunch of "gee, maybe I could use that in a project," or "that'd be fun to get working," stuff filling every available surface, picked up at various swap-meets and the local surplus stores (now sadly vanished) over the years.? I'm about to hit 70 and have realized that I'll never use a lot of it in the time remaining -- tempus fidgits, after all.? And so I've been carting it off to the local swap-meet to sell.
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The second image is my more recently assembled home-away-from-home lab, again, in a corner of that house's garage.? ?(On the bench is an HP 3430A Nixie-tube DVM that I'm working on).??
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- Jeff, k6jca
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