FCSP Software Version 2.112.125:3.15:3.15:3.15:3.15

[chl]

My SW matches

2.112.125:3.15:3.15:3.15:3.15

but FW version is

5.0.25

I wonder how to update the firmware?
But then I think: if it ain't broke...

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[chl]

German engineers do things with purpose.

When I was an undergrad, I almost got a job with Siemens - it was driving around to various hospitals and doctor offices calibrating x-ray machines, paid pretty well and included a Mercedes I could use when off the clock...the deal breaker was the dosimeter badge I would have to wear...I was thinking I might want to have 'normal' kids someday.

 

[Lytning]

German engineers do things with purpose.

Have dealt with too many German equipment manufacturers, I can sum up their approach as ... "Ve are German, and ve know the RIGHT way to do things!"

 

[Zprime29]

When I was an undergrad, I almost got a job with Siemens - it was driving around to various hospitals and doctor offices calibrating x-ray machines, paid pretty well and included a Mercedes I could use when off the clock...the deal breaker was the dosimeter badge I would have to wear...I was thinking I might want to have 'normal' kids someday.

This reminded me of my time in the Air Force. I flew on the Compass Call, airborne jamming platform. I recall being told that if I flew long enough, I would only be able to have boys due to the EM radiation leakage from the jammers. We never wore devices to know exactly how much we were exposed to. I guess I didn't fly long enough as a few years after I had a girl.

 

[chl]

This reminded me of my time in the Air Force. I flew on the Compass Call, airborne jamming platform. I recall being told that if I flew long enough, I would only be able to have boys due to the EM radiation leakage from the jammers. We never wore devices to know exactly how much we were exposed to. I guess I didn't fly long enough as a few years after I had a girl.

Aluminum pants not standard issue?

One of my prof's had been in the AF and he told the story of how soldiers on guard duty in Alaska would stand in front of the radar antennae because it kept them warm! Microwaves!

The early microwave ovens used to leak radiation around the doors which is why I didn't have one for many years.

One last fun fact about RCA color TV's in the early days: their flyback transformers emitted radiation in the up and down directions, so if you lived in an apartment, your upstairs and downstairs neighbors were getting zapped with x-rays!

Besides ionizing radiation from flyback transformers, strong magnetic fields can also be a hazard, like around commercial movie projectors.

Eventually chromosomal mutations take hold and bad things can happen.

That's why we have OSHA and other agencies to protect us...well, I guess I should say, used to have.

 

[tearitupsports]

I received this .125 update on mine as well. I will test with HIS later this week.

 

[TaxmanHog]

One of my prof's had been in the AF and he told the story of how soldiers on guard duty in Alaska would stand in front of the radar antennae because it kept them warm! Microwaves!

The early microwave ovens used to leak radiation around the doors which is why I didn't have one for many years.

My father was USN radioman someone found it funny to energize a radar beacon while he was on a mast working on HF antenna, early / mid 60's

The navy dropped him like a hot potato in 1971, he died of leukemia 1973 in his mid 30's

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