[time-nuts] Test Equipment

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Sat Jan 23 16:53:09 UTC 2010


I really think the Tek TM500 is a great way to set up a compact,
professional grade lab. If you get a TM515 mainframe, you can even travel
with it.

I think I'd consider carefully about getting a separate scope (465A,...)
rather than a SC50x though.

-John

================


> Thanks to everyone who answered in this thread.I am keenly interested
> in everything everyone had to say!
>
> One of the things that seems like a no-brainer, would be to scrape
> together the $700 and get an Agilent E8285A CDMA test set. It seems
> like I can't go wrong with that! My only concern with getting these
> off eBay or from anywhere else for that matter, is that apparently the
> later versions firmware only support 800Mhz and up operation instead
> of the earlier versions 100kHz-1Ghz.
>
> Unfortunately, Amtronix seems to have run out, or at least are on
> their last 1-2 units. I wont have the cash in time to get one, as they
> have sold 35 in the last month alone.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Another very cool set of toys that had been mentioned, were the Tek
> TM500 series, which I am also interested in! I don't need any of the
> freq. counter plugins, but the power supply, func. generators, etc.
> All very cool!
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Magnus Danielson
> <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> Bob Camp wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> About 8 years ago a whole lot of companies dumped a whole lot of test
>>> gear. Prices dropped rapidly as they did so. It's taken us all quite a
>>> while
>>> to burn through that pile of stuff.
>>> The amazing thing is that as bad as the economy is now, you don't see
>>> people doing the same sort of thing. You see oceans of people out of
>>> work,
>>> but not piles of test gear getting sold off.
>>
>> Well, when the .com bubble bursted, it had been preceeded by massive
>> acceleration of an instrument-hungry industry. As the bubble bursted,
>> both
>> .com companies and otherwise stable companies accelerated by their
>> customers
>> suffered. Some folded in and some just barely survived.
>>
>> This time it was the economy folks that fluked it. Instrument hungry
>> industry only suffers indirectly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
>> To unsubscribe, go to
>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
>> and follow the instructions there.
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to
> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.
>
>





More information about the time-nuts mailing list