[Boatanchors] Scope Recommendation

[Kim Herron]

Hi Gang,
>Bill Pancake wrote:
>>A basic, single-trace "vintage" scope is what I have in mind.
>
>Bill, a couple of givens 'n' druthers might help.  What 'vintage' are we 
>talking about?  To me that might be a '48 Du Mont, to you ...
>
>And how basic?  Do you want to struggle with recurrent sweep or go modern 
>enough for triggered sweep?  How much bandwidth?  Tubes or sand-state?  (A 
>maintenance factor.)  Brand preferences?  Service grade or lab grade?  And 
>I would really suggest dual-trace but it's up to you.
>
>Scope first, then probe(s), but as long as you're talking about a standard 
>1 Meg Zin there are tons of good used Tek probes out there and no good 
>reason to not use them.
      I'd like to add an observation or two.  One is the fact that being 
able to look at the input and the output of a circuit at the same time
is very helpful and speeds troubleshooting.  A dual trace scope makes that 
a snap.  The other thing and that a good dual trace scope will do
is allow you to use the X-Y input, when aligning IF's and you now have a 
spectrum analyzer that allows you to do a sweep alignment of the IF'
s and look at the actual curve of the IF.  In fact i've gotten so dependant 
on my Tek 2213A and 465B scopes (using both at the same time),
that I bought a 2465B so I can put all four traces on one screen.  What 
really is neede here is a good book on the use of a scope in trouble shooting
and repair.  The value of the dual trace 100MHz O'Scope becomes very 
obvious.  Just my two cents.


>Fred
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Thanks!!

Kim Herron  W8ZV
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