greatartiste

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by greatartiste 3mo ago
If you ever want to see how many radio amateurs are out there in the field doing activations (summits on the air , parks on the air even bunkers on the air) in your part of the world then this website is excellent .. https://fiel
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by greatartiste 2y ago
Sometimes if they get to hot or following many many heating/cooling cycles the insulation varnish on the transformer windings starts to fail leading to short circuit issues.
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by greatartiste 2y ago
For a human who deals with student work or reads job applications spotting AI generated work quickly becomes trivially easy. Text seems to use the same general framework (although words are swapped around) also we see what I call 'word
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by greatartiste 3y ago
Check if your phone has dropped to 2G. It is rare to find a location which only has 2G coverage but when it happens while voice/sms works OK data speed drops to almost zero.
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by greatartiste 3y ago
When my Mother first started wandering my first thought was there had to be some technical solution but I'm afraid the way that the mind with dementia works means that there isn't. We tried both Airtags and GPS trackers but neithe
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by greatartiste 4y ago
Back in the late 80s I had a job servicing the 2 way radios used by bus drivers. Then you could smoke of buses & it caused a lot of problems not just for the passengers but for the electronics getting into volume controls , channel sele
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by greatartiste 4y ago
Once at a Farnborough air show many years back there was a display from an aircraft maintenance company with small sections of the skin of old airliners. On those if there was a small imperfection of the metal skin or the seal to the window
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by greatartiste 4y ago
These things are now everywhere , not just litter but an environmental horror story and a fire risk as well. Previously I had seen them & wondered what they were then this Big Clive video explained all .. https://www.youtube.
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by greatartiste 4y ago
No I must admit that is even lower than I thought they were capable of , yet somehow doesn't surprise me.
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by greatartiste 4y ago
Yes I'm seeing those as well. The pictures are just a little to perfect & the job history non existent.
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by greatartiste 4y ago
I never thought I would say this but LinkedIn seems to have gone even further downhill than it was a few years ago. You know things are bad when even the low end recruiters seem to have left the platform. These days 90% of the contacts&#x2F
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by greatartiste 4y ago
I bought an SoundBlaster16 DSP card on the basic premise it had a DSP on it as I wanted to do some audio processing. Not sure if it actually did have a DSP IC in it as Creative never released any info on how to program it. The disappointmen
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by greatartiste 5y ago
Not sure where you are but this may be linked to the number of resignations and vacancies in many big companies at the moment. I have been trying to buy some high value electronic instruments at work for the last 12 months but it is turni
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by greatartiste 5y ago
Back in the day I used to have to repair the CRT monitors for these. They were incredibly heavy and you could do yourself serious harm just lifting one from a box onto your bench. The reason for the weight was that once you had removed the
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by greatartiste 5y ago
Thanks for your post. I'm aware of Jindalee and the Russian OTHRs which claim to detect aircraft (and I believe the claim) but they are very different from WSPR. My station transmits 10 watts (and that's on the high side for WSPR)
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by greatartiste 5y ago
I can't agree more , reading this every bullsh*t alarm in my brain was triggering. In his report Mr Godfrey never mentions the frequencies used for the WSPR transmissions. This mode can be used on VHF/UHF frequencies where it may
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by greatartiste 5y ago
Sadly not all Agilent/HP equipment uses rotary encoders like this. One of their function generators was brought to me with a clear rotary encoder fault. I opened it up expecting to find a rotary encoder like this. But instead found the
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by greatartiste 6y ago
There can be a very fine line. A few years ago I worked with someone who was a bullying objectionable arse especially to younger staff. Eventually it all caught up with him and with HR breathing down his neck he managed to acquire a Asperge
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by greatartiste 6y ago
I do some work in a certain field of digital signal processing. From time to time I look at the latest academic papers in that field and am always shocked by the poor quality. Probably 90% of the papers couldn't be repeated due to a la
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by greatartiste 7y ago
The Russians have just started transmitting from a new OTHR called Konteyner .. https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/russian-othr... also .. https://planesandstuff.wordpress.com/202
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by greatartiste 7y ago
This is an interesting thread as despite working for many many years in IT I know next to nothing about SAP. I have worked with people from all parts of the IT ecosystem over the years but not SAP. It appears to be its own little closed wor
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by greatartiste 7y ago
Years ago I was involved in a project to scrape certain info out of a SAP system with a web interface. It would have been easier to do it with a API but my conversations with the SAP people at work were going nowhere (is it me or do SAP IT
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by greatartiste 9y ago
That works - Many thanks
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by greatartiste 9y ago
I did that and am trying to access via Twitter but just hit the same paywall.
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by greatartiste 10y ago
My wife used to be a Talk Talk customer in the days of dial ins. Anyway 5 or so years back they suddenly started billing her credit card again monthly for the service she had cancelled years before. We couldn't stop this online as thei