[Elecraft] Oscilloscope Requirements?

[Jose Deschapelles]

Paul, I own an Owon 100 MHZ. 2 MPS scope and find it very  nice. The model
is SGS8102-VGA. I bought it from Saelig.com, they sell Rigol, Owon, and
many other test equipment manufacturers. I look at the RF from my station
with a Bird 4873-020 Coupler, it can be varied to get up to 70 dB.
attenuation. If you figure that a KW is 60 dBm., you can adjust it so you
get a mW (o dBm) out. That's an RMS value of .0.223 Volts. The scope can
handle it. I want to use it full time as a Monitor Scope, but it also does
FFT, so you could use it to look at your spectrum. By the way, it comes
with a VGA output, USB ports, and LAN. This model with the VGA port runs
$599, the one without it runs $529. I haven't even touched on all the
features it has (due to all the digital controls) but it's easy to start
working with it, if you have worked with HP and Tek scopes, either analog
or digital. I use to have a Tek 475 in my bench all the time.

73,
Jose
W2JD



On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Paul Saffren N6HZ <pauls at elecraft.com>wrote:

> On my bench is a  Rigol DS1202CA 200 MHz/2GSa/s  scope.  It replaced a
> Tektronix that burned out it's EL backlight supply.  The Rigol is a great
> piece of test equipment and it's pretty evident they had several Tek scopes
> to play with during the design process.  While this is a Chinese scope, it
> is obvious that quite a bit of western development went into it.  On the
> front there is a USB connector for a thumb drive and on the back a USB-B
> for
> direct computer connection sans HPIB interface. (the driver on the PC
> emulates HPIB)  This is a two channel scope with an external trigger and it
> comes with a pair of pretty good probes.   I have also had very good luck
> their customer service. Price is right around $1200, and they do have less
> expensive 100 MHz versions.  We have a few of their spectrum analyzers
> which
> for the money cant' be beat.
>
> -Paul
>
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