Bomb Squad
1999-10-29 by Paul Schreiber
I bet it is programmed in "decades" (modulo 10). You are hearing the 'rounding-off' as the decades roll from 0>>9 or 9>>0. The R.A.F. will be knocking on your door. Paul S. -----Original Message----- From: Paul R Bower <vulture.squadron@...> To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com> Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [motm] More VCA blabbering (kind of) >From: "Paul R Bower" <vulture.squadron@...> > >hello troops >i think i might have something constructive to say (for a change:-) >following on from the VCA lin / log thing, 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
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>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 >1) am i mad >2) am i wrong in thinking that random x anything = still random (cos that's >what it seems) >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) > >cheers paulb (now i have to go build a pile of BNC to Jack cables...) > >>