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by jack
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4663003

Re: Nothing In Particular

andrew Ivimey wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:34 pm YES IT BOODY WELL IS.
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dem ... aring-loss

Interesting...
by jack
Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:42 pm
Forum: Solid State
Topic: testing
Replies: 26
Views: 8633

Re: testing

andrew Ivimey wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:36 pm Oh dear, I've scrolled back and can't find 'REW' - What is?
https://www.roomeqwizard.com/
by jack
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4663003

Re: Nothing In Particular

Speaker cable thoughts from Mark Hennessy , 20-odd years as Engineering Lecturer at BBC Academy, Wood Norton... https://golbornevintageradio.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=9022&pid=98758#pid98758 What's the panel's opinion? I should say that I know Mark (a bit) and he is the owner of that forum...
by jack
Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:19 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4663003

Re: Nothing In Particular

Speaker cable thoughts from Mark Hennessy , 20-odd years as Engineering Lecturer at BBC Academy, Wood Norton... https://golbornevintageradio.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=9022&pid=98758#pid98758 What's the panel's opinion? I should say that I know Mark (a bit) and he is the owner of that forum ...
by jack
Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4663003

Re: Nothing In Particular

Very interesting. I didn't know that history. Ronald Dekker, he of uTracer fame, is a Senior Researcher at Philips and a Professor at TU Delft. Using his access to Philips' archives, he has put together a great page on the EF50 aka CV1091 (SWIDT) which is also referenced on the Wikipedia page: http...
by jack
Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Nothing In Particular
Replies: 16439
Views: 4663003

Re: Nothing In Particular

Not done this for a while, however it's iconic...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF50

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by jack
Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:34 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 438562

Re: what are you doing ?

That was quick... most unusual...

Today I are mostly becoming Portuguese 8)

Back in Europe Baby!!

Two years ago they kindly sent me the nice cover; now, eventually, I have something to put in it:
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by jack
Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Zero emission road vehicles.
Replies: 912
Views: 398372

Re: Zero emission road vehicles.

Neal wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:52 pm He also mentioned that the have ‘heating’ posts for ICE cars in car parks as the temperatures can get really low, plug your car in to pre warm the engine.
That's essentially what we were doing in Newfoundland back in the day. ICE vehicles need fluids to be fluids to operate.
by jack
Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:14 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.
Replies: 3776
Views: 1182506

Re: The Audio-Talk Cycling thread.

Cyclist had jumped a red light then had a near miss with the pedestrian on a zebra crossing, after which the cyclist confronted and headbutts the guy... Police are looking for him...


by jack
Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:22 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Zero emission road vehicles.
Replies: 912
Views: 398372

Re: Zero emission road vehicles.

It's not like it hasn't been known for decades that pretty much every battery technology has issues with low temperatures as most rely on some form of chemical reaction and we all know, or at least those of us who did A Level chemistry do, that as the temperature falls, the kinetic energy of the mol...
by jack
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Zero emission road vehicles.
Replies: 912
Views: 398372

Re: Zero emission road vehicles.

by jack
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 438562

Re: what are you doing ?

Wasn't that painful in the end (*)...

Trip to London to the Portuguese Consulate, couple of hours in there, back to Bank for lunch with #2 son (he paid) and then home to Kent.

Should get the passport in 2 weeks.

(*) Snigger - just add a "?" and the whole meaning changes...
by jack
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:24 am
Forum: Solid State
Topic: testing
Replies: 26
Views: 8633

Re: testing

steve s wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:52 am Slightly off the subject.. but I met Pete millet in November, really nice guy, and quite a whisky connoisseur.
He's a good friend of Morgan Jones.
Not met him but have had a number of email discussions with him and he's always been very helpful.
by jack
Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: Solid State
Topic: testing
Replies: 26
Views: 8633

Re: testing

I did a forum search for 'Millet' and this thread came up, hope it's OK with our-Ed if I hijack it for a bit. Testing, I'm clearing a stack of projects and 'stuff' I've been meaning to do for years that have piled up on my bench. I've found my old Pete Millet Soundcard interface box and M-Audio Tra...
by jack
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 438562

Re: what are you doing ?

^^^ my chum Antonio (a Portugeezer) had the same experience you had NickJack. I've been trying for over two years to sort this out... one of the crazy things is that you'd send them an email (you can't do this over the phone), and hear absolutely nothing for months. You CANNOT send a follow-up emai...