31-01-2017, 09:05 AM
I gave my 7904A and all it's plugins away after it developed the "click of death". Loved that 'scope - when I was a student doing my EE degree, I was sponsored by STL Harlow (part of ITT) so had to work for them for a few months a year - as a 19 y/o I had a 7000-series scope on my bench along with a tonne of other stuff.
My first bit of work with that was designing a digital filter for the Doppler MLS (Microwave Landing System) for Harrier jets.
I learnt to drive by pretending to be a Harrier - Honest!
We obviously couldn't afford to have a real Harrier hovering around for months while we were developing the system, so we had an LWB Landrover with approx. 1 million quids worth of electronics in the back...
...plus a huge controllable telescopic mast mounted behind the cab. On top of this we had our transducers - so I drove up and down this field for one Summer, raising and lowering the mast as we went and taking a billion measurements, pretending to be a Harrier taking off and landing.
Great fun. Harlow was a real dump, though...
My first bit of work with that was designing a digital filter for the Doppler MLS (Microwave Landing System) for Harrier jets.
I learnt to drive by pretending to be a Harrier - Honest!
We obviously couldn't afford to have a real Harrier hovering around for months while we were developing the system, so we had an LWB Landrover with approx. 1 million quids worth of electronics in the back...
...plus a huge controllable telescopic mast mounted behind the cab. On top of this we had our transducers - so I drove up and down this field for one Summer, raising and lowering the mast as we went and taking a billion measurements, pretending to be a Harrier taking off and landing.
Great fun. Harlow was a real dump, though...
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