On Sunday 06 March 2016 09:21:49 Larry Martell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
[...] > > So in that scenario, I have first hand knowledge about relativity > > despite my offical 8th grade education. > > Gene, your massive and varied experiences trump my formal education > any day. Chuckle, and many thanks Larry. I'll have to admit that I did get a bit of a grin after the fact in explaining the cause of that particular broadcasters major pain in the ass to a papered FCC engineer. ;-) He did "get" it FWIW. He also tore up the $27,500 citation he was going to issue because he had measured 46 units of burst in the on air signal the night before, when he saw that a diode, which doesn't lie without a huge amount of help, said about 19.5 and the R&S monitor worth about 10 grand more than what he had in the truck said 39 units. s/b 40. Since the diode measure both sidebands, but the lower one is missing, it only shows half of what the NTSC signal has when the monitor (or the common tv,) is properly aligned and fine tuned correctly. We also had automatic correctors for that sort of things which would never have allowed that 12% error to get past it. Has Carol written anything new lately? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
