[Test-Equipment] Risers on your workbench

[mikea]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:06:15AM -0800, davec wrote:
> >One more piece of tube would be nice, to extend from
> >left to right across the back, above the shelf which has the speaker.
> >--
> >Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> 
> For what purpose? Is this to keep stuff from sliding off the back?

Just generally stiffening the upperworks. It's a bit ... drifty ... 
with the 8640, the Tek 465B, the counter, and a Philips PM3055 scope
all up top, where I've been keeping them of late. Along with a couple
of function generators[1] and some other stuff.

[1]   Ramp generator's output into the DC-coupled FM modulation input
      on the HP 8640 makes it a linear sweep generator. 8640 out goes
      to the input of the DUT. Same ramp goes to the X-input on a
      scope, with scope controls tweaked for full width deflection,
      and the DUT's output goes to the Y-input, or to the input of my 
      SDR-IQ. It's a cheap alignment tool, and very nearly as useful 
      to me as an HP 141 with tracking generator. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin