True. My R&S FSH3 with hardware and software modules was close to $15K US 10 years ago and it's only good to 3MHz but is a useful tool. Just no longer battery operated and if unplugged loses all the setup information. It's linkage into the PC is through an optical connection to a serial port on the PC so there's no pseudo ground or weird ground connection. And the PC software has been useful.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@wdtv.com] > Sent: October-08-14 1:53 PM > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Oscilloscope + logic analyzer (PC based) > > On Wednesday 08 October 2014 14:01:10 John Dammeyer did opine > And Gene did reply: > > Yeah. The replacement scope for my GOULD was a TEK TDS3032 with > floppy > > drive. Takes as much as a minute to capture the screen. Getting > > harder to read those floppies from Windows Systems. Not really > > possible to take it apart and insert a floppy emulation USB drive. > > So I bought a TEK MSO3034. This has USB and Ethernet. Takes forever > > to start up whatever OS it has. Hopefully will have at least a 15 > > year life. Unlike my Rhode and Schwartz Spectrum analyzer which was > > lucky if the battery pack lived for more than 6 months. At over $1K > > to replace it I stopped. And I won't buy another Rhode & Schwartz. > > > > John > > OTOH John, I have had an FCC field inspector walk in the door with > citations in hand. They disappear like magic if, after showing him the > error doesn't exist when he asks what you are using for a demodulator & > you turn and point at an ancient R&S model AMF in the rack. > > No matter what he has in the truck, the Rhode was considered better. Same > with an MSI if the calibration is current. This of course was back in > NTSC days. That Rhode was $25k in its day, the much newer MSI was just > north of $5k. > > [...] > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer > Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports > Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper > Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.cl > ktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
