[Milsurplus] "Milking The Controls"

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I don't understand why everyone seems to report switch problems with Tek 
scopes.  We used them everywhere from the deserts of Libya and Saudi Arabia to the 
jungles of Borneo, plus more pleasant locations like northern Europe (where I 
seldom got to go) and had negligible problems.  HP 'scopes are overweight, 
overpriced and overrated.  I learned to hate them during a tour in Vietnam when 
I had to haul one up 6 levels and back down almost every day while I was 
babysitting an AN/URN-3A.

In a message dated 10/30/2004 8:09:47 PM Central Daylight Time, ham at cq.nu 
writes: 
> I have no argument with the "these are great scopes" claim. In some 
> ways they are the ARC-5's of the 1990's. The switch problems started as 
> soon as they came off the production line and have continued ever 
> since. The same problems seem to show up on the DMRO scopes as on the 
> commercial units. As far as I can see the "mil spec version" is 
> identical to the commercial version.
> 

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