IBM moves procurement to PRD

I don't think they "drive on the "wrong" side of the road for left-pondians" in Florida. What brought you to my neck of the planet, Jim? Do you come here often? It'd be nice to buy you a beer and show you around some weekend.

They aren't supposed to, but you can't convince some of the foreign tourists. :(

They're probably trying to avoid all those menacing 80+ year old retirees who drive enormous cars and can barely see the road.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

The other one. I can manage Melbourne, Florida... remember, I'm an ol' fart, too ;-)

Drivers in Melbourne, Australia, are like those in Paris or Mexico City, only _much_ faster ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Time really flies! I just startled myself... it's been _19_ years since I was there.

I was co-lecturer at a week-long CMOS seminar at RMIT...

Willy Sansen, Professor at KU Leuven, taught Digital, and I taught the Analog.

...Jim Thompson

I was arguing with a friend in China whether China will one day take over the aerospace industry. His answer is no. Let other country (probably the US) take the vanity prize. The technologies in building consumer products are as complicated as space crafts. There is nothing unusual in aerospace electronics, except for the price. Beside, China have to recycle the billions of foreign currency in something.

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No, they keep those US dollars in the bank. It is their protection against the US. They have enough $$$ to buy the *entire* US tomorrow.

It's inevitable they will start to make passenger jets, but probably not for decades. Japan still isn't doing it, though they're gradually absorbing all the technology they need by joint ventures with Boeing (making the wings for the Dreamliner!) and independent research (see the Honda bizjet including Honda turbofans that they claim they didn't build to sell, just as kind of a project for their engineers). Like the Japanese ICBM solid fuel rockets that were supposedly designed just for launching satellites. Fat chance. The Chinese are doing the same with Boeing AFAIR, and the Airbus engineer I talked to thought they were crazy for doing those deals (or maybe it was the other way around). The Chinese market for passenger and cargo jets is enormous and growing very fast (km for km, many domestic flights are cheaper in China now than soft-class sleeper trains, not to mention being just a few hours instead of a day or two). Think of how many airplanes will take to move all those people around for holidays and so on.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

P.S. PRD = Pearl River Delta, if that's a reference to my previous subject line.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hello John,

That's a good deal although 40kHz RBW can make some EMI work a bit tough. Wonder if one could mod them a bit to get to a tad under 10kHz.

Check these out:

The site has frames and doesn't allow easy links, so disregard all this electro-smog stuff (ahem, I don't believe in that anyways...), go to English and then spectrum analyzers.

Hameg also has some good analyzers but all $2k and up AFAIR.

Yeah, that's the hardware store effect. Once you set foot into the tools department you can't easily be dragged out of there. Lusting for a mini-lathe here...

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Would be nice. LO's stable enough to do easily do 10kHz. Had it opened up 30mins after unpacking it, (you know how it is!). Curious as to how they'd done the neat attenuators, signs of any YIG osc and their bandwidth and video circuitry. Sadly everything is surface mount, with all the RF stuff hidden in 100% seam soldered tin casings.

Yes. Had looked at it along with a similar product. Nice price. That HF8080 looks it'll do everything under the sun. And how on earth can they voltage sweep a LO over what must be say 9 to 16GHz?. Logical side decided against it due to no mention of a displayed dynamic range, noise level a bit high and blocky display. Human side decided it wanted lots of clicky knobs, buttons and switches.

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Must be a guy thing. Already got the lathe and milling machine and 2 other spectrum analysers. Figured years ago I could only ever be as good as my kit :). john.

Funny. They mostly seem like mobile chicanes to me :-). Driving a classic Alfa promotes that kind of exuberance :-))).