vFIRE - A Fireside Experience for Engineers

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Featuring 5025 seconds of log burning enjoyment. vFIRE leverages cutting-edge Keysight tech including a 28.5 GHz P5004A VNA, a U5857A Thermal Camera, and a DSOX1204G X-Series Oscilloscope to finally answer the age-old question - what is the RF performance of a glass of eggnog?

From the warm glow of our monitors to yours, may all of your beverages have the tastiest S21 and S11 measurements. (requires option P5004A–190).

*Note: per the legal team’s guidance, the original project name “COAL” or "Coaxially-Optimized Artificial Log" has been discontinued and should no longer be used pending arbitration with THE NORTH POLE, LLC.

If you're wondering about the VNA setup (I know that's why you're here), the yellow trace is S11, the blue trace is S21.

The start frequency is roughly 10 kHz and the stop frequency is roughly 8 GHz. I could have gone higher but I didn't want to stick my fancy cables into boiling water.

Each vertical division is roughly 10-15 dB.

The oscilloscope is hooked up to those red lights and is in normal trigger mode (if you pause just right you can see the lights turning back on).

0:00 Keysight vFIRE
2:00 cream soda
2:20 virtual fire side experience begins
18:20 ginger ale
19:00 vFIRE is v fire
28:55 stoked
30:35 stoked and stockinged
32:55 just stoked again
35:55 egg noggin
50:45 way too late in the day for breakfast tea
52:40 tape was a bad choice
53:15 I got 99 probelems
54:00 I've been advised the tape is not edible
54:20 tape was a REALLY bad choice
54:35 regretting my cable choices
55:55 that S21 looks pretty ok!
58:35 watching the S21 is a vibe
1:01:41 Imma let you finish but Beyonce had
1:02:55 udderly delicious
1:03:10 why did I double down on the tape!?
1:05:40 taaaaape
1:05:47 cookie
1:06:28 surprise cookie
1:12:02 hot cocoa
1:13:10 needs moar cocoa
1:17:11 turns out the scope is in "normal" trigger mode
1:19:15 cookie dough
1:20:18 another snowman casualty pls f in chat
1:21:00 I still have cookie dough in my SMA send help
1:23:25 om nom