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Re: 647 cal fixture on ebay
Snort!
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Seriously, it's not ham shorthand at all, it's chatroom shorthand, stands for If I Recall Correctly. Other related ones: AFAIK As Far As I Know YMMV Your Mileage May Vary These serve to delineate precisely how much you do *not* know about what you're talking about :) Regards, Dave Wise -----Original Message----- |
Re: ligthing gel
Thank you, Craig. That was very smart of me: said 'lighting gel' and then
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went on about photographic filters. Regards Miroslav Pokorni ----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Sawyers" <c.sawyers@...> To: "TekScopes" <TekScopes@...> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:09 AM Subject: [TekScopes] ligthing gel film,You did mention that lighting gel before, but I still do not besomething to be used to make custom photographic filters. The film must collapsing?very thin, to avoid optical distortions due wavy surface caused inPlease, explain the construction.Lighting gel is the stuff that is used in front of stage lighting in front of Tek scopes for sure - but it would certainly be better than |
Re: Bias batteries in 7S14
Michael Dunn
At 12:22 AM +1100 2004/3/6, jeans wrote:
You can download the instruction Manual from TekNet at Thanks! I've added their URL to our Links page. I'd advise any members who haven't checked out that page to do so sometime. Lots of good stuff... Michael |
Re: 7S/7T Sampling System
Ashton Brown
Craig, thanks!
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+11 Informative.. Your post encapsulates about a dozen questions I've had re refurb of the pure unobtainium stuff. Printed! It's Very nice to know that, with some precise fiddling - many of these can be resurrected. (And thanks to Stan, repeatedly - for supplying the unobtainium Information!) GaAs back with a vengeance, eh? 150 Ghz might get us 5000 Channels - with nothing watchable.. Two ears and a tail - {static-free, of course} Ashton Craig Sawyers wrote: I have read postings about using some fast SchotkyI did this with a defunct S3a 1GHz sampling probe. The brige was toast |
Re: 475A filter, protective cap availability?
Robert Morein
Lighting gels are not very thin, because they are mounted in front of
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lights, not lenses. The dye is "cast" into the material. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Miroslav Pokorni" <mpokorni2000@...> To: <TekScopes@...>; "Mark Anton" <heightstv@...> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:07 AM Subject: Re: [TekScopes] 475A filter, protective cap availability? Hello Mark,what is that material and why musical instrument repair shops would have it.mounting. In that case, how you would make a 4 x 6" screen without film collapsing?repair getshop should possibly have some. The only to be careful of is not too fartherone that is too opaque. Then you would have to turn up intensity scopesthan needed to view the trace. I have used gel material on several CRTnow and works well. It isnt just for looks either...the reason it isthereis to provide a higher contrast trace. vs seeing a white background. filter with a nice sharp new one. Ar they commonly available? |
Re: Bias batteries in 7S14
jeans
You can download the instruction Manual from TekNet at
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<>. You need to sign up but they seem to be OK. Click on the manual panel on the left of their web site and follow the instructions. You can only download 5 manuals per month. The file is large, 25 Mbytes so s fairly complete. Don Black. Michael Dunn wrote: Does anyone have a digitized manual...? |
Re: Your document (Public Humiliation)
Ashton Brown
Yes, I'd expect that by now - most Tekscopes readers are aware of the harvesting of e-mail addresses: often via the wide-OPEN access to LookOut and M$ Office -- holes even larger than those in the OS itself. The first target often is: one's address book. This has been going on only since.. version 3.x of this humongous 'application on-top-of DOS' - ergo
Pretty likely, someone with Mr. G's address in *their* book is most apt to be the real source of the nastily tainted message. (Note too that, Yahoo strips off attachments by default) But then, with Dumont grade s/ware in millions of places: who can resist poking it with a blunt object? daveolla wrote: Greetings, Grobbins says not guilty! people always make the front page when accused, and their later innocence buried in the folds of the last pages.-----------------< snip >------------------ |
Re: Your document (Public Humiliation)
Greetings, Grobbins says not guilty! people always make the front
page when accused, and their later innocence buried in the folds of the last pages. --- In TekScopes@..., "Howard Matthews" > Grobbins got a virus! Neener, neener, neener! To answer your allegations Mr. Neener -Norton antivirus is updated automatically, often. -Presently no viruses have been found. -No attachements have been opened since Feb 5 ( from one of our members), and it was run thru Norton, it was clean. -I also did not post anything on the site since Feb 4, message 6693. I have noticed that my full email address showed up on the post supposedly sent by me, however, none of my "real posts" have this. Mr. Neener wrote; 1. Did not have antivirus software up-to-date, ANDFor a techie to fall for one of these is embarrassing.OK, I'm sorry...... that as a techie you fell for this, but you need not be embarrassed because this group is meant to help even those that have little understanding, and since when did this "Classic Tube Scopes" group require the computer savey of 11 year olds!! We all must try to ensure our measurements are made properly for any kind of precision. The Real grobbins@n... Daveolla P.S. The real Daveolla certainly would have started his post with a friendly "Greetings", that should have been another clue! P.S.S. hold the presses, front page, above the crease, this just in.............. --- In TekScopes@..., grobbins@n... wrote:Please have a look at the attached file. |
ligthing gel
Craig Sawyers
You did mention that lighting gel before, but I still do notLighting gel is the stuff that is used in front of stage lighting in threatres and film sets. It is available in very many colours, in large sheets, and is heat resisting. It is thinner than the plastic sheet used in front of Tek scopes for sure - but it would certainly be better than nothing. Something like this looks about right for the standard blue 7000 series 'scope filter. Craig |
Re: Tek C-53 Camera And C50/C70 Film Back
Hello Greyhawk,
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What do you need from that manual? It is pretty big and I have a paper copy that would need to scanned, so do not push it. Regards Miroslav Pokorni ----- Original Message -----
From: "greyhawkeng" <greyhawkeng@...> To: <TekScopes@...> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: [TekScopes] Tek C-53 Camera And C50/C70 Film Back Can Someone Send Me A .PDF File Of The Operator/Service Manual? |
Re: 475A filter, protective cap availability?
Hello Mark,
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You did mention that lighting gel before, but I still do not understand what is that material and why musical instrument repair shops would have it. I presume, the material is a gel with dye, deposited on transparent film, something to be used to make custom photographic filters. The film must be very thin, to avoid optical distortions due wavy surface caused by mounting. In that case, how you would make a 4 x 6" screen without film collapsing? Please, explain the construction. Regards Miroslav Pokorni ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Anton" <heightstv@...> To: <TekScopes@...> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 5:29 PM Subject: RE: [TekScopes] 475A filter, protective cap availability? well for a screen filter is lighting gel material. You can pick thecolor....use one that is close to the color of the trace. A musical intrument repairthere is to provide a higher contrast trace. vs seeing a white background. |
Re: Bias batteries in 7S14
pe1fbo
The 7S14 batteries have a voltage of 1.35 volts, New silver oxide
batteries are about 1.55 volts. You can replace these mercury types safely with silver oxide types in a 7S14. I have done this about a year ago and worked perfectly. Empty or nearly empty batteries showed on mine an increased noise band (mind you they where not complete dead). After replacemend I did a recal on the unit, especially the avalanche voltage, loop gain, DC bal and MEM bal are affecting the noise. Fred de Vries |
Re: TEK 2753P Scare
Craig Sawyers
I have no idea what happened, and no ideaIt is both a massive relief and deeply worrying when this sort of thing happens. My 7L5 has got a similar quirk - the spectrum will shoot off 800kHz up the display from the reference dot - and then will come back and jitter around, settle down for a while then - back up to 800kHz. OK - an intermittent fault I hear you say - probably in the PLL. Heh - so far it has defied attempts to find it; seems to obey some qunatum mechanical behaviour: as soon as you offer it violence by trying to fix it, it settles down for a few hours. Until I really want to use it again, that is. But good luck with the 2753P - at least like my 7L5, it isn't *really* bust, just being an awkward SOB. Craig |
Re: TEK 2753P Scare
John Miles
I figured the front end had kicked the bucket. I tried theWhy would you assume that? This failure wouldn't have anything to do with the front end. It sounds like a CPU glitch of some sort. The problem's not likely to be gone forever, but not likely to put the analyzer totally out of commission, either. If it happens again, try turning off digital storage and see if that makes a difference. -- john KE5FX |
GR on eBay
Craig Sawyers
Here's another piece of early GR stuff I saw on eBay just now - item
3801842023. This is an 804C UHF signal generator. Looks like it is 1940's (it certainly predates the 1956 catalog that I have). Anyway, the seller has this listed for $8 on buy-it-now for anyone interested in this sort of gear. Craig |
TEK 2753P Scare
xaos
My 2753P Spectrum analyzer gave me the scare of my life.
I had not used the unit in about a month, but tonight I built a filter and I had to see the response. I have a TR503 Tracking generator and both units are perfect for checking filter bandwidth. I had the 2753P on for about five minutes, and all of a sudden, the display went nuts and all the front panel lights wend black. The display still showed something but it was garbage. All the front panel switches/buttons were dead except the Peak/Average control which still managed to move the averaging line up/down on the screen. Everything else was dead! So I turned the machine off, unplugged the TR503, and put 50Ohm terminators on the 1stLo, 2ndLo SMA outputs. I turned the machine on again, after 10 minutes, and all was dead again. At this point, you can imagine how I felt. There it was, my very nice (and expensive) spectrum analyzer dead as a doornail. I figured, here comes a very long troubleshooting session. So I take the instrument down, and take out all the panels. I don't have the Schematic Manual (That is volume two) so I was really worried that I would be without my spectrum analyzer for a very long time. So I re-seat all the cards, and still nothing. I check the output of the calibrator on my scope, and it was fine. As a last resort, I moved the Time/Div knob from "AUTO" to 1ms. Guess what..... The front panel flashed!!!!!!!!! I left the Time/Div knob to 1ms, and I turned off the unit. When I turned on the unit, all the front panel controls became functional and the unit came back to life. But still no signal on the display. I figured the front end had kicked the bucket. I tried the calibrate procedure and it failed right away. At this point I became very depressed. I don't think the front-end components of 2753P are still made. However, by mistake I ran the calibration routine with the Time/Div on 1ms and when it finished, I could see some response on the display. Sure enough, when I put the Time/Div back to Auto, and ran the calibration routine, it passed. The machine is now fully operational. I have no idea what happened, and no idea how it was fixed. I am just grateful that my spectrum analyzer is alive again. I felt "blind" without it. Sorry for the long post. George Hrysanthopoulos, N2FGX |
Re: Your document (Public Humiliation)
don falconer
I'm at the $2 windows saying it doesn't last 3..
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Regards, don f. KR4XH -----Original Message-----
From: Howard Matthews [mailto:hedgewarden@...] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:35 PM To: TekScopes@... Subject: [TekScopes] Re: Your document (Public Humiliation) Grobbins got a virus! Grobbins got a virus! Neener, neener, neener! Well, it is about time for a little public humiliation of the "no- clues" that click on an attachment. Unfortunately, Grobbins has helped to propagate a potentially harmful virus/worm because he: 1. Did not have antivirus software up-to-date, AND 2. Opened an unsafe attachment from a source he did not really recognize. Sorry, but if we are going to limit these virus/worm attacks, we are all going to have to be smarter. For a techie to fall for one of these is embarrassing. (Minor sympathy:) Some of these worms have been masquerading as email bounces. It is very tempting to open the attachment, to see which of your messages did not get delivered. CHECK THE TYPE! If it is not .eml, it is not email. OK, who else wants to be humiliated? -Peer-pressure panderer, Howard P.S. Grobbins probably doesn't even know he has started this thread. But if he has an excuse other than "sorry", we could probably all learn from it. (Hint, hint :) P.P.S. Who wants to bet the moderator will trash this thread in about 2 hours? I do! The only topical connection is that we are all supposedly a little more tech-savy than the median computer user. --- In TekScopes@..., grobbins@n... wrote: Please have a look at the attached file. _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TekScopes-unsubscribe@... <mailto:TekScopes-unsubscribe@...?subject=Unsubscribe> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of <> Service. |
Re: Is it advisable to turn intensity down when scope is idle (but displaying a signal) to preserve CRT?
I generally turn down the intensity quite a bit when not viewing the trace. I watch for that on some of the older tube scopes..because if stops sweeping trace could end up as a dot.
Mark Anton, Owner Heights TV & VCR Service 3946 Central Ave. NE Columbia Heights MN, 55421 Phone is 763-789-1767 (area code formerly 612) ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Craig Sawyers" <c.sawyers@...> To: <tekscopes@...> Subject: RE: [TekScopes] Is it advisable to turn intensity down when scope is idle (but displaying a signal) to preserve CRT? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:47:51 -0000 Should the scope intensity be turned down to some degree or all the wayI usually turn down the intensity on the scope right down if I'm doing something else for a while. But then again, I usually run at a fairly low brightness anyway - there simply doesn't seem to be the need to crank it up too far; you just need a clear trace, not a retina burning event. Craig _________________________________________________________________ Store more e-mails with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage ? 4 plans to choose from! |
Re: Your document (Public Humiliation)
Grobbins got a virus!
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Grobbins got a virus! Neener, neener, neener! Well, it is about time for a little public humiliation of the "no- clues" that click on an attachment. Unfortunately, Grobbins has helped to propagate a potentially harmful virus/worm because he: 1. Did not have antivirus software up-to-date, AND 2. Opened an unsafe attachment from a source he did not really recognize. Sorry, but if we are going to limit these virus/worm attacks, we are all going to have to be smarter. For a techie to fall for one of these is embarrassing. (Minor sympathy:) Some of these worms have been masquerading as email bounces. It is very tempting to open the attachment, to see which of your messages did not get delivered. CHECK THE TYPE! If it is not .eml, it is not email. OK, who else wants to be humiliated? -Peer-pressure panderer, Howard P.S. Grobbins probably doesn't even know he has started this thread. But if he has an excuse other than "sorry", we could probably all learn from it. (Hint, hint :) P.P.S. Who wants to bet the moderator will trash this thread in about 2 hours? I do! The only topical connection is that we are all supposedly a little more tech-savy than the median computer user. --- In TekScopes@..., grobbins@n... wrote:
Please have a look at the attached file. |
Re: 475A filter, protective cap availability?
I think i might have mentioned before on this list, an item that works well for a screen filter is lighting gel material. You can pick the color....use one that is close to the color of the trace. A musical intrument repair shop should possibly have some. The only to be careful of is not too get one that is too opaque. Then you would have to turn up intensity farther than needed to view the trace. I have used gel material on several scopes now and works well. It isnt just for looks either...the reason it is there is to provide a higher contrast trace. vs seeing a white background.
Maybe someone else might know of where you could get a cover. Mark Anton, Owner Heights TV & VCR Service 3946 Central Ave. NE Columbia Heights MN, 55421 Phone is 763-789-1767 (area code formerly 612) ----Original Message Follows---- From: timothy.urban@... To: <TekScopes@...> Subject: [TekScopes] 475A filter, protective cap availability? Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:21:34 -0500 Got a nice working 475A, would like to replace the original blue/green CRT filter with a nice sharp new one. Ar they commonly available? Also need the protective cap that fits over the face of the scope - what do these go for, and are there any better sources for them? Thanks Tim N5IIT _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar ? get it now! |
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