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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
Very cool thanks for posting this. I worked at two companies in the 80s that were Defense Contractors and they had a zero-tolerance for any outside radios, players, walkman, etc. I had an uber-expensive HP spectrum analyzer and the receivers we made used headphones, that is all you needed plus an antenna to get FM. Several of us were able to listen to the Iran-Contra hearings on WAMU from DC, then we talked about it in the lunch room. The DCAS guys were the G-men who came in to audit procedures, etc. These guys were in to audit while I was listening to WWDC-101.1 and pretending to work on a receiver, still could not help but laugh up my sleeve at the whole affair, my headphones were plugged into the spectrum analyzer the whole time. 
My Tek-516 is huge and the RCA WO-91 is just a bit tricky to measure voltage, but the Hitachi scope is fast and portable. Is this what you do at work if "TV sets" are not permitted?
I bought it from the son of a repairman from RI. He lives above my storage garage and one day showed all this stuff of his Dad's he was trying to sell on Ebay. I made a fair offer and got the scope, a Lafayette signal generator and some RC sub boxes. |
A friend of mine works at a defense contractor it's easier for him to listen to 8-tracks than any other format. Since most machines especially the one he uses can't record. CDs, MP3s cellphone media playback fuggedaboutit.