[NJARC] Tonight's webcast - a report from the field

[David Sica]

So tonight I learned several things about 'scopes:

1. I heard the most understandable explanation of probe compensation ever.
I think I actually finally understand it.
2. I heard the best explanation ever of 'scope triggering ever.

I've watched Alan's original "Scopes for Dopes" presentation several times,
but either I keep forgetting some of the details, or tonight's presentation
just made some points clearer for this particular 'dope.'

For those of us (the ones I like to call "real engineers") like Al Klase
and Alan Wolke, who understand all this stuff intimately, my heartfelt
thanks for slogging through basic material again and again for the benefit
of us 'shade tree engineers' who continually struggle with so many of the
fine points!

I know that many of you appreciate the live webcasts.  Tonight I got to
experience the meeting via the webcast, which is an unusual situation for
me; usually I'm sending it out!  So a big "Thank You" to Matt Reynolds for
wrangling things in my absence. (And another big "Thank You" to RadioWild
for recording the presentation on HD video!)

Watching via webcast was a bit frustrating at times, as many of you have
mentioned to me in the past.  Tonight I got first-hand experience with
freezing video, commercial interruptions, suboptimal audio and all the rest
of the stuff that makes the webcast only the next-best thing to attending
the meeting.  Still, it's way better than missing it completely.  And I did
get a few ideas on how to make things better, so we'll see how that goes.

I greatly enjoyed attending the July NJARC meeting...  ...from several
thousand miles away.  That's at least two reasons ya gotta love this club!

-- Dave Sica
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