Post by plutronus on Oct 5, 2014 3:37:00 GMT -6
Well...that's a good question, and one that I'm happy to yak about... :)
Its been awhile since I posted here last, although (with my 'presence' ID
turned off), I check-in periodically see what my friends are up to. In
any case its been slow in my neck of the woods but not uneventful.
Last week, after four months of progressively worse illness my long-hair
jet-black kitty 'Inky' (which was pheral when I trapped him 9 years ago,
somebody threw him away because he was sick, just a little guy...) with great reticence...I
was forced to put him to sleep. It was truly an unavoidable mercy killing, if I
had not, Inky would have suffered, dying a terrible death otherwise.
<sigh> It broke my heart to do so. <sniff>
Inky developed feline asthma (supposedly) and some type of a growth in his esophagus
(throat), three vets over a four month period misdiagnosed his ailment and then
finally I took him as an emergency to a pet hospital, where he stayed in their
care for a whole week. A few weeks later he was back in the hospital, worse
than ever. Up to that point I had been administering anti-biotics as he
supposedly had an upper respiratory virus. I was administrating meds twice a
day for three months, (squirting the doses down his throat using needle less
syringes + water, as Inky had stopped drinking and eating. I also pushed
Fancy-Feast, (kitties love that stuff), into his mouth on the tip of my index
finger, scraping it off my finger on the inside of his front bottom chompers).
After three months of this, Inky hated me. Irregardless he was progressively
becoming more ill. Then Inky was diagnosed (via lung x-rays) with feline
asthma. It was terrible to see him gasping for air. I tried everything within
my financial ability to save Inky. Between the four vets, all the meds, the
bronchial-dilator puffer medicine and the hospital stays, I spent well over
$7000. I even bought two medical gas oxygen bottles with valves,
regulator and gauges (eBay) and I built him an oxygen box to help him breath at
night, which improved the quality of his life...it helped, but I couldn't get
anyone to write me an Rx for the oxygen refill. Yep, cats don't count, you can
get an Rx for a Human but not for our little buddies and vets can't write the
prescription, at least not in California.....its
a phk'd up Reptilian world we live in. They feed on our pain. They are the
bonafide devil. There's a saying that goes, "the greatest trick that the
devil has done was to convince Humans that it doesn't exist...hah. But that's
only part of the story. The devil isn't just one spiritual nasty demonic entity
that resides in the spirit plains whispering little nasties just under the edge
of our consciousness, nope, its a race of mean and nasty flesh and blood aliens
which traveled to Earth 144,000 yra on huge black triangular interdimensional
space-craft and through using advanced technology they are both hiding their
existence from us while using us...they never left. The **BIG** secret is God
didn't make us...the devil did! Errrr the Reptilians did.
It makes me so sad....I brought Inky's shell home and buried it in the back
yard...its just a metaphor...symbolically he's home.... :(
During the ensuing week I was very sad. I was working on my UFO detection
system that I've been developing on & off through the years. It was early
morning, maybe 2ish or 3ish? Its a bi-level home, two steps down into the
den and the adjacent lab area where I do my engineering work. Its cool at
night, lately its been running 107F ~ 112F during the day. So I work at night.
I was deep in thought writing software, but I kept catching wispy impressions
just on the edge of consciousness, off to my left. I found myself glancing in
that direction when on one occasion I saw just over the top of the couch, it
was dark over there, a single straight up black tail coming down the stairs
into the den, but I didn't see the kitty, just the tail. Objectively I thought
it was my little girl Brendie kitty (she's my lab-assistant). I got up and
looked to see what she was doing as she didn't come around the couch? There was
nobody there? So I went through out the house and found her in the master
bedroom on the bed asleep.
So Inky came to see me, his tail straight-up, --generally a sign that everything’s
'ok' with a kitty. But I'm still sad. His thought-atmosphere is fading
into the higher dimensions as time passes. My QBLA teacher says that the
departed are attracted to our grief and that they hang around aiding us with
our pain.
<sigh>
Other things...
In a moment of pure madness of buying frenzy, via eBay, I bought a wideband
microwave spectrum analyzer. Yep, its true folks...I finally did it. Its one
tool that I've always wanted to own but could never afford. I found a
series of old surplus Hewlett-Packard spectrum analyzers (which are heavy,
noisy, old as sin, and physically large in comparison with current 'modern'
tools). These particular gadgets are just now being sold off as surplus from
microwave laboratories. This particular RF frequency domain oscilloscope is
considered by many RF microwave engineers to be the gold standard of spectrum
analyzers of all time the world over. HP engineers have ALWAYS proven
themselves to be extra-ordinary exceptional analog and RF circuit designers,
they are considered by engineers to be the best in the world. Their RF analog
laboratory instruments are coveted as the finest laboratory equipment
manufactured anywhere on Earth. And I got me one. I bought the gold standard of
spectrum analyzers and I got it for a song too. Its an HP8568B,
( www.machine--tools.com/By-Location-/Connecticut-/Hp-8568B-spectrum-analyzer-1-5GHZ-opt-E44-H44-H96.ASPX). I also own two HP power-supplies and two HP function
generators, all four instruments are GPIB programmable.
The HP856x series spectrum-analyzer model was manufactured between the years
1972 and 1989, --my analyzer has components in it that are code dated '1986',
so I'm fairly certain that it was manufactured sometime between 1986 &
1989. Its only 25 years old!! And it still runs great! New, these
instruments sold for $75,000 Dollars each. I bought mine in two modules,
the RF and the Display module and manuals, via auction, for just over $800. I
also bought a new replacement CRT tube, but it turns out that it is the wrong
tube for my unit (frenzy brain fade), it was made for a later version display
module. Eventually I'll sell it to some lucky fellow. These tubes are becoming
unobtanium (LCD screens are replacing all CRT applications and CRTs are no
longer being manufactured anywhere). New CRT tubes, when one can find them,
typically sell for around $1,600. Someone is going to get themselves a really
good deal, because I'm gonna sell my tube for what I paid for it!!
To put things into monetary perspective, some vendors are selling these
beautiful old noisy (forced-air cooling fan) HP8568B clunkers for around
$15,000 (NIST calibrated) although the majority of vendors are selling them
(uncal'd) for between $1500 to $5000 each and the median price being
$2500. I am very happy with my analyzer. I've been working to verify the
calibration of the instrument's 3500 check-points...eee-gads! The manuals (all
five of them) collectively have ~3500 pages, specs, instructions, calibration,
and schematics. Its a complicated machine.
Some might ask why buy such a gadget?
Well, for one thing my UFO detection system project employs, among a bunch of
other frequency related things, a remotely placed detection module that radio
telemeters (via WiFi) its data back to the user's PC/laptop via a WiFi-USB
dongle (a functional section that I got running two years ago) which need be
FCC certifiable (eg, no adjacent band splattering, etc), which my 'new' tool
can validate. Since the microprocessors that I use in the system operate
in the tens of megacycles (MegaHertz) and solar-panel power-supply is
switch-mode....all of that need be limited in its emission range, again to
prevent side-band splattering into other adjacent frequency bands. Don't wanna
accidentally jam GPS or the ambulance/fire emergency bands, etc. While
I'm not yet at that juncture in the development process, I have an excellent
tool for doing so when I do eclipse that juncture. Although I have already
tracked down a power-supply harmonic problem using it.
What else is it good for? Well, Dr. Roger Leir, a medical surgical
doctor, a podiatrist who became convinced that there are indeed, ET gadgets
being implanted into Humans for some unknown agenda and which he on occasion
was able to remove from various experiencers (recently died of a heart-attack
while awaiting a podiatry surgical procedure for a car accident induced injury
in which he was a victim) was slated to use a wide-band spectrum analyzer at an
upcoming UFO conference where he and I were co-lecturers. He used 'his'
spectrum-analyzer to attempt to identify alien-implants in audience members. My
spectrum-analyzer can also be used for that purpose, plus my analyzer is actually
much more capable an instrument as it exhibits greater sensitivity (down-to
-190 db) and it has a wider spectrum range than his borrowed instrument did.
Mine being 100 Hz all the way up to L2 microwave with a resolution bandwidth of
10Hz and 12 dbci phase noise figure. That’s pretty da.mn good. At my
last military-aerospace job, our most expensive ($158,000)...aka 'sensitive'
spectrum analyzer wasn't as good as that. Just goes to show that modern doesn't
always have to mean better.
What else?
Well I've been working with magnetometers for the past month or so. I gotta get
a magnetometry lab up and running so that I can monitor the magnetic
environment... And I've had enough theory, enough reading. Its time to put all
that excellent yakking to work. The magnetometers that I'm
currently implementing are the FGM-1's (www.fatquarterssoftware.com/store/c4/Sensors.html)
which are manufactured in the UK by the Speake Ltd company.
These gadgets cost around $60 US Dollars each for just the sensor
component. To become a functional instrument requires additional circuitry. In
my experimental design I'm implementing three of them, to create a 3-axis
earthfield sensor. Not the most sensitive of the FGM series models, but then
again, I reside in suburbia where it is significantly EMF noisy. In fact that’s
one of the problems facing ET presence instrumentation designers.. If ya
design the sensors to be super sensitive, well then alot of what is detected is
just junk noise, lots of it. So the design need be more clever than that. One
strategy reduces the spot-sensor noise by increasing the area of sensoring..eg,
sprinkling lots of sensors around and then mathematically combining the data.
But don't make the individual sensors super-sensitive, no, just sensitive
enough to detect the OVERHEAD or even NEARBY passing flying-saucer but no more
sensitive than that. Yep, that's all that's needed.
In the past, everybody who has fabricated ET gadget sensor magnetometers,
created them to be very sensitive, so that the sensor might detect a
flying-saucer 16 blocks down the street or even farther distant. Frances
Ridge's MADAR being one such implementation.
In my current experimental implementation (won't be in the final design as I've
selected a different type of magnetometer sensor for that project), I'm using
an Atmel ATmega32A microcontroller,
(www.atmel.com/devices/ATMEGA32A.aspx) running on a 16MHz system
clock which provides 16 MIPS of computational power.
Basically the Speake FGM magnetometers are flux-gate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetometer#Fluxgate_magnetometer) magnetometer sensors
that (as I best I've been able to ferret out, were originally
designed by the very competent, (deceased), Dr Noble and then Speake
miniaturized it using an SMT MicroChip PIC microcontroller, while the fluxgate
is wound on a miniature toroid permeable core and resin potted inside a glass
vial, to keep the lookiloos out). In any case these sensors are reasonably
sensitive to earthfield. I'm only interested to see when the mag field becomes
so distorted that compasses point away from north or wobbles the
needle...marking the passing of a flying-saucer. The FGM fluxgate sensors
'translate' magnetic flux 'lines' mapped to a linearly magnitude adjusted
variable frequency oscillator. Each of the three sensors outputs a frequency
pulse-train rate corresponds proportionally to the magnetic field moment of the
environment. So I'm essentially making a three channel frequency counter using
the internal 'resources' of the ATmega32A microprocessor. I've wired the
uP pins to the sensors and am writing the software to direct the processor to
use the CCP capture feature of the timers to generate an interrupt on each
rising edge of each of the three pulse-train 'data' streams. Using a 1 second
gate, I count each of the pulses, latching and holding the count on the end of
the gate period, the latched count value is the digital representation of the
magnetic field in which the sensor is immersed.
Oh..and I went on a diet. My cardiologist told me five months ago that if I
didn't lose significant weight, that I would become intimately related to the diabetes
needle...and God do I hate needles. So, I've lost 52Lbs using the Atkins low
carb diet. It works for me. And I hang out on an Atkins recipe website. I make
many of the recipes that are posted there, my favorite is the Artisan Flat
Bread recipe. Its filling, tasty, and I can make sandwiches with it!!!
Well, that’s it for now...until next time...
plutronus
Its been awhile since I posted here last, although (with my 'presence' ID
turned off), I check-in periodically see what my friends are up to. In
any case its been slow in my neck of the woods but not uneventful.
Last week, after four months of progressively worse illness my long-hair
jet-black kitty 'Inky' (which was pheral when I trapped him 9 years ago,
somebody threw him away because he was sick, just a little guy...) with great reticence...I
was forced to put him to sleep. It was truly an unavoidable mercy killing, if I
had not, Inky would have suffered, dying a terrible death otherwise.
<sigh> It broke my heart to do so. <sniff>
Inky developed feline asthma (supposedly) and some type of a growth in his esophagus
(throat), three vets over a four month period misdiagnosed his ailment and then
finally I took him as an emergency to a pet hospital, where he stayed in their
care for a whole week. A few weeks later he was back in the hospital, worse
than ever. Up to that point I had been administering anti-biotics as he
supposedly had an upper respiratory virus. I was administrating meds twice a
day for three months, (squirting the doses down his throat using needle less
syringes + water, as Inky had stopped drinking and eating. I also pushed
Fancy-Feast, (kitties love that stuff), into his mouth on the tip of my index
finger, scraping it off my finger on the inside of his front bottom chompers).
After three months of this, Inky hated me. Irregardless he was progressively
becoming more ill. Then Inky was diagnosed (via lung x-rays) with feline
asthma. It was terrible to see him gasping for air. I tried everything within
my financial ability to save Inky. Between the four vets, all the meds, the
bronchial-dilator puffer medicine and the hospital stays, I spent well over
$7000. I even bought two medical gas oxygen bottles with valves,
regulator and gauges (eBay) and I built him an oxygen box to help him breath at
night, which improved the quality of his life...it helped, but I couldn't get
anyone to write me an Rx for the oxygen refill. Yep, cats don't count, you can
get an Rx for a Human but not for our little buddies and vets can't write the
prescription, at least not in California.....its
a phk'd up Reptilian world we live in. They feed on our pain. They are the
bonafide devil. There's a saying that goes, "the greatest trick that the
devil has done was to convince Humans that it doesn't exist...hah. But that's
only part of the story. The devil isn't just one spiritual nasty demonic entity
that resides in the spirit plains whispering little nasties just under the edge
of our consciousness, nope, its a race of mean and nasty flesh and blood aliens
which traveled to Earth 144,000 yra on huge black triangular interdimensional
space-craft and through using advanced technology they are both hiding their
existence from us while using us...they never left. The **BIG** secret is God
didn't make us...the devil did! Errrr the Reptilians did.
It makes me so sad....I brought Inky's shell home and buried it in the back
yard...its just a metaphor...symbolically he's home.... :(
During the ensuing week I was very sad. I was working on my UFO detection
system that I've been developing on & off through the years. It was early
morning, maybe 2ish or 3ish? Its a bi-level home, two steps down into the
den and the adjacent lab area where I do my engineering work. Its cool at
night, lately its been running 107F ~ 112F during the day. So I work at night.
I was deep in thought writing software, but I kept catching wispy impressions
just on the edge of consciousness, off to my left. I found myself glancing in
that direction when on one occasion I saw just over the top of the couch, it
was dark over there, a single straight up black tail coming down the stairs
into the den, but I didn't see the kitty, just the tail. Objectively I thought
it was my little girl Brendie kitty (she's my lab-assistant). I got up and
looked to see what she was doing as she didn't come around the couch? There was
nobody there? So I went through out the house and found her in the master
bedroom on the bed asleep.
So Inky came to see me, his tail straight-up, --generally a sign that everything’s
'ok' with a kitty. But I'm still sad. His thought-atmosphere is fading
into the higher dimensions as time passes. My QBLA teacher says that the
departed are attracted to our grief and that they hang around aiding us with
our pain.
<sigh>
Other things...
In a moment of pure madness of buying frenzy, via eBay, I bought a wideband
microwave spectrum analyzer. Yep, its true folks...I finally did it. Its one
tool that I've always wanted to own but could never afford. I found a
series of old surplus Hewlett-Packard spectrum analyzers (which are heavy,
noisy, old as sin, and physically large in comparison with current 'modern'
tools). These particular gadgets are just now being sold off as surplus from
microwave laboratories. This particular RF frequency domain oscilloscope is
considered by many RF microwave engineers to be the gold standard of spectrum
analyzers of all time the world over. HP engineers have ALWAYS proven
themselves to be extra-ordinary exceptional analog and RF circuit designers,
they are considered by engineers to be the best in the world. Their RF analog
laboratory instruments are coveted as the finest laboratory equipment
manufactured anywhere on Earth. And I got me one. I bought the gold standard of
spectrum analyzers and I got it for a song too. Its an HP8568B,
( www.machine--tools.com/By-Location-/Connecticut-/Hp-8568B-spectrum-analyzer-1-5GHZ-opt-E44-H44-H96.ASPX). I also own two HP power-supplies and two HP function
generators, all four instruments are GPIB programmable.
The HP856x series spectrum-analyzer model was manufactured between the years
1972 and 1989, --my analyzer has components in it that are code dated '1986',
so I'm fairly certain that it was manufactured sometime between 1986 &
1989. Its only 25 years old!! And it still runs great! New, these
instruments sold for $75,000 Dollars each. I bought mine in two modules,
the RF and the Display module and manuals, via auction, for just over $800. I
also bought a new replacement CRT tube, but it turns out that it is the wrong
tube for my unit (frenzy brain fade), it was made for a later version display
module. Eventually I'll sell it to some lucky fellow. These tubes are becoming
unobtanium (LCD screens are replacing all CRT applications and CRTs are no
longer being manufactured anywhere). New CRT tubes, when one can find them,
typically sell for around $1,600. Someone is going to get themselves a really
good deal, because I'm gonna sell my tube for what I paid for it!!
To put things into monetary perspective, some vendors are selling these
beautiful old noisy (forced-air cooling fan) HP8568B clunkers for around
$15,000 (NIST calibrated) although the majority of vendors are selling them
(uncal'd) for between $1500 to $5000 each and the median price being
$2500. I am very happy with my analyzer. I've been working to verify the
calibration of the instrument's 3500 check-points...eee-gads! The manuals (all
five of them) collectively have ~3500 pages, specs, instructions, calibration,
and schematics. Its a complicated machine.
Some might ask why buy such a gadget?
Well, for one thing my UFO detection system project employs, among a bunch of
other frequency related things, a remotely placed detection module that radio
telemeters (via WiFi) its data back to the user's PC/laptop via a WiFi-USB
dongle (a functional section that I got running two years ago) which need be
FCC certifiable (eg, no adjacent band splattering, etc), which my 'new' tool
can validate. Since the microprocessors that I use in the system operate
in the tens of megacycles (MegaHertz) and solar-panel power-supply is
switch-mode....all of that need be limited in its emission range, again to
prevent side-band splattering into other adjacent frequency bands. Don't wanna
accidentally jam GPS or the ambulance/fire emergency bands, etc. While
I'm not yet at that juncture in the development process, I have an excellent
tool for doing so when I do eclipse that juncture. Although I have already
tracked down a power-supply harmonic problem using it.
What else is it good for? Well, Dr. Roger Leir, a medical surgical
doctor, a podiatrist who became convinced that there are indeed, ET gadgets
being implanted into Humans for some unknown agenda and which he on occasion
was able to remove from various experiencers (recently died of a heart-attack
while awaiting a podiatry surgical procedure for a car accident induced injury
in which he was a victim) was slated to use a wide-band spectrum analyzer at an
upcoming UFO conference where he and I were co-lecturers. He used 'his'
spectrum-analyzer to attempt to identify alien-implants in audience members. My
spectrum-analyzer can also be used for that purpose, plus my analyzer is actually
much more capable an instrument as it exhibits greater sensitivity (down-to
-190 db) and it has a wider spectrum range than his borrowed instrument did.
Mine being 100 Hz all the way up to L2 microwave with a resolution bandwidth of
10Hz and 12 dbci phase noise figure. That’s pretty da.mn good. At my
last military-aerospace job, our most expensive ($158,000)...aka 'sensitive'
spectrum analyzer wasn't as good as that. Just goes to show that modern doesn't
always have to mean better.
What else?
Well I've been working with magnetometers for the past month or so. I gotta get
a magnetometry lab up and running so that I can monitor the magnetic
environment... And I've had enough theory, enough reading. Its time to put all
that excellent yakking to work. The magnetometers that I'm
currently implementing are the FGM-1's (www.fatquarterssoftware.com/store/c4/Sensors.html)
which are manufactured in the UK by the Speake Ltd company.
These gadgets cost around $60 US Dollars each for just the sensor
component. To become a functional instrument requires additional circuitry. In
my experimental design I'm implementing three of them, to create a 3-axis
earthfield sensor. Not the most sensitive of the FGM series models, but then
again, I reside in suburbia where it is significantly EMF noisy. In fact that’s
one of the problems facing ET presence instrumentation designers.. If ya
design the sensors to be super sensitive, well then alot of what is detected is
just junk noise, lots of it. So the design need be more clever than that. One
strategy reduces the spot-sensor noise by increasing the area of sensoring..eg,
sprinkling lots of sensors around and then mathematically combining the data.
But don't make the individual sensors super-sensitive, no, just sensitive
enough to detect the OVERHEAD or even NEARBY passing flying-saucer but no more
sensitive than that. Yep, that's all that's needed.
In the past, everybody who has fabricated ET gadget sensor magnetometers,
created them to be very sensitive, so that the sensor might detect a
flying-saucer 16 blocks down the street or even farther distant. Frances
Ridge's MADAR being one such implementation.
In my current experimental implementation (won't be in the final design as I've
selected a different type of magnetometer sensor for that project), I'm using
an Atmel ATmega32A microcontroller,
(www.atmel.com/devices/ATMEGA32A.aspx) running on a 16MHz system
clock which provides 16 MIPS of computational power.
Basically the Speake FGM magnetometers are flux-gate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetometer#Fluxgate_magnetometer) magnetometer sensors
that (as I best I've been able to ferret out, were originally
designed by the very competent, (deceased), Dr Noble and then Speake
miniaturized it using an SMT MicroChip PIC microcontroller, while the fluxgate
is wound on a miniature toroid permeable core and resin potted inside a glass
vial, to keep the lookiloos out). In any case these sensors are reasonably
sensitive to earthfield. I'm only interested to see when the mag field becomes
so distorted that compasses point away from north or wobbles the
needle...marking the passing of a flying-saucer. The FGM fluxgate sensors
'translate' magnetic flux 'lines' mapped to a linearly magnitude adjusted
variable frequency oscillator. Each of the three sensors outputs a frequency
pulse-train rate corresponds proportionally to the magnetic field moment of the
environment. So I'm essentially making a three channel frequency counter using
the internal 'resources' of the ATmega32A microprocessor. I've wired the
uP pins to the sensors and am writing the software to direct the processor to
use the CCP capture feature of the timers to generate an interrupt on each
rising edge of each of the three pulse-train 'data' streams. Using a 1 second
gate, I count each of the pulses, latching and holding the count on the end of
the gate period, the latched count value is the digital representation of the
magnetic field in which the sensor is immersed.
Oh..and I went on a diet. My cardiologist told me five months ago that if I
didn't lose significant weight, that I would become intimately related to the diabetes
needle...and God do I hate needles. So, I've lost 52Lbs using the Atkins low
carb diet. It works for me. And I hang out on an Atkins recipe website. I make
many of the recipes that are posted there, my favorite is the Artisan Flat
Bread recipe. Its filling, tasty, and I can make sandwiches with it!!!
Well, that’s it for now...until next time...
plutronus