[R-390] HP And Other Signal Generators

[Perry Sandeen]

List,

Please don’t shoot the messenger for stating an opinion.  I’m not trying to have a yellow water re-distribution demonstration.  


Love is where you find it after the loving’s gone.

This applies to signal generators as well.

Some got their 8640B units from MARS and so sell them at a low price.  Others found a deal three years ago from a epay Dum-Koff for a good working HP 8656B for $375 (me).   I paid $750 for a good used Fluke 6080 seven years ago.  That was a good deal.  

Stuff at hamfests is usually less than epay, unless maybe you factor in the traveling expenses.

All used signal generators come in varying degrees of condition, original features, price, availability, personal preferences (buttons or knobs) and the serendipity factor of luck.  (The I got the whizbang for peanuts story.)  We look for the best price performance-ratio that our budgets and personal situations allow.  There is no gold standard that any of us can afford.  So we get what we can get at that moment in time.

A reasonably working of the afore mentioned generators are far better than a URM-25 or a HP-606 IMUHO.

Regards,

Perrier