Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-30 Thread GastonP
It looks like a great project to work in, with a lot of technical challenges. Very interesting! Thanks for the detailed answer. Gastón On Saturday, November 29, 2014 10:54:39 PM UTC-3, nixiebunny wrote: > > This project involves equipping the South Pole Telescope for Very Long > Baseline Inter

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-29 Thread David Forbes
This project involves equipping the South Pole Telescope for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). This is a method of taking data simultaneously with several telescopes in different parts of the world, then shipping the data to a central correlator to detect interference fringes between th

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-29 Thread 'Ian Vine' via neonixie-l
If I had the space I'd take you up on the black knight 2000. Hope it finds a good home IanV > On 28 Nov 2014, at 19:10, Quixotic Nixotic wrote: > >> On 28 Nov 2014, at 18:00, Ron Walsh wrote: >> >> As a matter of fact I am working on a clock for my wife. :) > > Is it a fair exchange Ron? W

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-29 Thread Quixotic Nixotic
On 28 Nov 2014, at 22:28, David Forbes wrote: > I've been working on non-nixie stuff... a bit of RF signal processing kit for > this: > > http://kicphubs.uchicago.edu/depot/images/sptaerial-large_ver_1.jpg > > It's at the South Pole. I'm not going, but the gizmo is shipping out this > Monday

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-29 Thread GastonP
Can we get one of those from Alibaba? If not... what kind of signals will that baby listen to, and why Antarctica? Low human-origin background noise? Gaston On Friday, November 28, 2014 7:28:32 PM UTC-3, nixiebunny wrote: > > I've been working on non-nixie stuff... a bit of RF signal processin

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread gregebert
> > That's a really nice panaplex - what model is it? > It's a Sperry SP-151. Obviously it was intended to be used for clocks (AM, PM colon, tens-hours digit is only '1'). I havn't seen any of then in-use, so I wonder how many were built. The unit I have was a sample my father received from Sp

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread David Forbes
I've been working on non-nixie stuff... a bit of RF signal processing kit for this: http://kicphubs.uchicago.edu/depot/images/sptaerial-large_ver_1.jpg It's at the South Pole. I'm not going, but the gizmo is shipping out this Monday AM. --David Forbes -- You received this message because yo

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread Nick
On Friday, 28 November 2014 21:48:59 UTC, Nixcited delighted wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2014, at 21:30, Nick wrote: > > > That's a really nice panaplex - what model is it? > > I thought you were not going to buy any more stuff Nick? > > Now, now, John - it's Christmas - retail therapy and all that! T

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread Quixotic Nixotic
On 28 Nov 2014, at 21:30, Nick wrote: > That's a really nice panaplex - what model is it? > > Nick I thought you were not going to buy any more stuff Nick? John S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group a

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread Nick
That's a really nice panaplex - what model is it? Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this gr

Re: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread Quixotic Nixotic
On 28 Nov 2014, at 18:00, Ron Walsh wrote: > As a matter of fact I am working on a clock for my wife. :) Is it a fair exchange Ron? Who is offering deals like that? I am getting a pinball machine with a good shiny gas plasma dot matrix display very soon. Nick de Smith, you will have to come ov

RE: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month...

2014-11-28 Thread Ron Walsh
As a matter of fact I am working on a clock for my wife.  :) Semper Fidelis Original message From: Nick Date:11/28/2014 12:31 (GMT-05:00) To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [neonixie-l] Nice quiet month... ...but I know people are not just sitting idly doing nothing