[Milsurplus] Tek 5440 Scope

[Don Merz via Milsurplus]

I love old tek scopes....and around here you can often get them for nothing--nobody wants those big boatanchors--well, except the audiofools who want to strip the 12AX7's and 6DJ8s out of them then throw the rest away--UGH.
I have a 545 in working condition and a 514 that used to work fine but now needs some recapping. It was already partly recapped once. Both on the obligatory scopemobile with plug-ins in the case of the 545. People are impressed when they see those huge old Teks come to life when power is applied--with 60+ glowing tubes.
73 de N3RHT

      From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
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 Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 2:25 PM
 Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Tek 5440 Scope
   
Your offer of the 5440 somehow makes me think of the old huge five hundred families, 536, 545, 547 and 585 and at one times how those dinosaurs ruled the earth. Ok, know what you’re thinking that the 5440 is more closely related to things like the 7603 or other more modern scopes and has nothing to do with the dinosaurs from back in the day of huge scopes that lived on “Scope mobiles” and in many cases had fifty to eighty tubes and used plug ins like the CA dual trace but its them I want to talk about and not the newer seventies and eighties technology. 
For those of us who can remember try to think back to those days when a quality O Scope required a significant amount of floor space and at least a half hour to warm up, and it was not uncommon to spend about half an hour setting all the knobs and trying to get the trigger level just right and last but not least having the technical ability to read the gratical and not only determine volts in peak to peak but also pulse duration without on screen displays. And how soon we abounded those huge monsters for Tek 465 and ever smaller scopes who were then replaced newer scopes with no ability to heat the shop. I hate to admit it but for the last ten years or so have been using the little Tek TDS series digitals, But just like a 57 Chevy the old Tektronix 547 had a style that was unique to the time period and much like antique military radios equipment come to represent technologies that we will never see again and now we have reached a point in time where they are just being given away. The thing is that its scopes that are being given away don’t see too many giving away their radios.


Ray F



-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Watkins via Milsurplus
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:01 PM
To: Army Radios; Mil Surplus; heathkit at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Milsurplus] Tek 5440 Scope

 Hi all,
I have 2 of these scopes, one is a spare parts unit, and one sort of works, has a trace (will have to .  I have 5 plugins for these scopes, and they work, also some manuals if I can find them.  Free, Pick up only in Seguin, Texas.  Will be home all weekend.  If you want these, first email first gets them.
John  WD5ENU
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