[R-390] HP And Other Signal Generators

[Drew P.]

I like my EICO 324! (grin)

Drew

Perry Sandeen wrote:
> 
> 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.