[Boatanchors] Inexpensive Scope Probes

[rbethman]

My mainframe PS went south too.  Picked up another mainframe for around 
the range you are looking at Carl.

This one came from a College engineering lab.

Put me back in business!  The plug-ins were simply shifted from the one 
frame to the other.  So far I have NO need for 300 to 500MHZ abilities.

I find University and College cast-offs to be a good source.  It is due 
to all the PhDs that get new grants and go off on spending sprees to get 
the "latest" and "greatest" with every possible whiz bang.

Some of the "Institutions" have a "pile" out back full of completely 
functional and usable pieces of equipment.

It helps that I've got a friend that is a Ham that works at one of these!

Bob - N0DGN

On 2/9/2011 2:08 PM, Carl wrote:
> My main scope was a R7904 until the PS crapped out and its on the floor
> until I can get to it or just pick up another mainframe for $50 or less. I
> only paid $150 for it with 4 plug-ins about 4-5 years ago at a local surplus
> dealer. I havent gone beyond a 200MHz probe set yet but its still good for
> seeing signals way beyond that at a relative level which is all thats needed
> for stage alignment most of the time.
>
> Good SS analog scopes are everywhere these days, its often the TEK tube ones
> that are bringing big bux.
>
> Carl
> KM1H