MOTM

In a message dated 10/29/99 4:08:49 PM, vulture.squadron@... writes:

>i have a question:
>on and off all evening i've been tarting around plumbing my motm (#100,
>#120, #410 so far heh heh) into my Pulse Generator (military surplus jiggery
>pokery) which works in some kind of bizarre decade scale - obviously. anyway
>my question is this - using the random output of my motm#100 into the input
>of any vco, even a Hz/V one (ish), I get a good old fashioned randomy sort
>of sequence. plug this same random output intothe PG52B (pulse geny)  and
>i
>get a strange and rather nice middle eastern tempered random output,
>disimilar from a normal VCO. now then

This sounds very interesting! I suggest you let Paul take a look at it so he 
can build a similar module -- advertise it as "sounds from Vulcan," everyone 
will think it means Star Trek.

>1) am i mad

Possibly!

>2) am i wrong in thinking that random x anything = still random (cos that's
>what it seems)

Well, zero times anything is zero, but zero volts in your CV input won't 
produce zero Hz at the output -- but your basically right.

>3) did the RAF really design their V Bomber communications systems based
>on
>some kind of gamelan scale (i'm in deep doo doo if this one's right)

There was a thread about 6 mos. ago about the military being interested in 
the MOTM 300 -- maybe the NATO has a wacky EM group similar to all those 
marching bands that all the services seem to have!

Where did you get a pulse generator from a Vulcan bomber -- you didn't buy 
form a guy named Blofeld at some tech swap meet did you?

JB
BTW: I recently saw the first Austin Powers movie and I believe that the 
voice of Dr. Evil is Mike Myers imitating an Englishman imitating an 
American.