[Boatanchors] Test Bench Equipment Recommendations

[rbethman@comcast.net]

Bill,

    The GR 1001A is a GOOD sig gen.  The manual is on BAMA, I put it up=20
there.  Another is the AN/URM-25 sig gen.

    The Heath VTVM should do fine.  Simpson 260 or 270 will be mostly oka=
y.

    A B&K (or is it BK?) counter can be had at a decent price - even=20
SHUDDER on the E place.

Bob - N0DGN

Bill Stewart wrote:

>Hello fellow  BA'ers:
>  Having recently retired, I now have some time to work on some of these=
 goodies acquired over the past few years. I am not a whiz-bang technicia=
n, but would like to be able to do some receiver and transmitter alignmen=
t without going through the hassle of first having to trouble-shoot my te=
st equipment, resulting in a low confidence level in the test equipment. =
My meager test bench now consists of a BC-221-T (un-used for a number of =
years), a Gen Rad 1001-A signal generator (works fair but no modulation, =
poor attenuation, leakage, big and cumbersome), optoelectronics K7000 fre=
q. counter (works, but maybe something a bit better), Heath Kit V6 VTVM, =
Simpson 270 VOM, Radio Shack DMM, Heath Kit green eye condenser checker (=
meters & checker work ok). Also the sig. gen. & BC-221-T take up a lot of=
 room. I think maybe if I could upgrade the rf signal generator and maybe=
 the counter, the rest of the equip. would be ok.=20
>  So I guess what I'm asking is what do you guys recommend as far as the=
 sig. generator and counter is concerned. Any other suggestions would be =
appreciated....thanks...de Bill K4JYS
> =20
>
--=20

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