Magnus, No, we did not think of that at the time. A good idea, but if it worked the customers at the trade show would have had to stand on their heads to see the picture properly.
Craig McCartney WA8DRZ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Magnus Danielson Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 8:27 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] [OT] degausing Craig S McCartney wrote: > A bit off topic, but likely interesting to time-nuts: > > In the early days of HDTV (late 80s - early 90s) we were at a European > trade show and had to borrow, at the last minute, a large (~40") > CRT-based HD monitor from a Dutch company that was also exhibiting > there. We liked it so much that we purchased it for use at other > trade shows. The very next show was in Sydney, Australia. The > monitor would not converge and had funny rainbow patterns no matter > how many times we degaussed it. Thinking it had been damaged in its > half-way around the world shipment we called in the local > representatives of the Dutch manufacturer and they were as stumped as > we were. Finally, after they talked to engineers at the factory, the > explanation was: "Of course, that is a Northern Hemisphere monitor; > the earth's magnetic field is much different in the Southern > Hemisphere. It can't work there.". After the show we shipped it back > to our headquarters in California and, sure enough, the picture was perfect. > > So, we had a HDTV monitor that doubled as a earth hemisphere detector, > using magnetic flux differential. Needless to say, we only used it in > northern hemisphere shows after that. Did you ever tried to run it upside down? Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
