[Boatanchors] Oscilloscope Recommendations

[Bill Stewart]

Tnx Bob for the info.
73, Bill K4JYS

----- Original Message -----
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:32:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Oscilloscope Recommendations

Bill,

Another TEK that isn't all that small, but will go up to 25Mc is the 
5440.  The $10 Chinese probes work great!

The 5440 also displays the voltage range selected on the CRT, along with 
the time base selected.

You may or may not want one that low in frequency.  I haven't found a 
need to go any higher.  Especially since we are talking about hollow 
state radios.

I had one given to me, I used it until the HV section popped the fuse.  
Since I couldn't find what was wrong, I bid on another 5440 Mainframe 
and won at $100.  I simply moved the two dual channel plugins and the 
Time Base plugin into the second Mainframe.

That was of course *after* I plugged in the mainframe and ensured that 
the mainframe wasn't toast.

Even though it does *not* have a hard cover on the front, the seller 
*does* know how to properly pack and ship.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Bob - N0DGN
Sarge




On 8/20/2014 11:29 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Good Morning all,
> Again, many thanks to all who passed along suggestions, recommendations, links
> and offers. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>    
> There are so many scopes to chose from, but I am focusing on the Tek scopes.
> I have narrowed that down to the 100mc 465B, on the high end (price and specs)
> and on the low end, the 60mc 2215A. Unfortunately, I will probably have to do my
> purchasing from Ebay...no fests coming up for me till Nov. I have found several
> Ebay sellers, one recommended by a list member, that all have 100% F/B,
> refurb and calib the scopes. A minus to this is that very few of the scopes have a
> front cover, but the ones I am watching do have probes, pwr cord and manual (cd).
> Hopefully in a few weeks, I will have a nice, working, scope on the bench.
> Mo later....73 de Bill K4JYS

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