Similar story for me. I bought an FM signal generator from a friend back in 1975 because it had nixies and very cool illuminated switches. Kept the freq counter for a few years, junked it for the nixies, and they sat in my junkbox for about 30 years. Then in 2011, I finally built my first nixie clock and have been an addict ever since.
It all came full-circle last year when I bought an HP 5245 from a local surplus shop, so now I once again have a freq counter with nixies. Only THIS time there is NO WAY it will get scrapped.... On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 11:05:01 AM UTC-7 Mark Moulding wrote: > I've got an HP 5326B frequency counter > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmG77UuCVJg> I picked up at the TRW swap > meet in Los Angeles at least 20 years ago - of course, it was old then > (1970's vintage). Even now though, it's astonishingly accurate - it agrees > out to +/- one count in the 7th digit with my Fluke frequency reference. I > don't hold on to it because of the Nixies, but because it's a damn good > piece of test equipment. > ~~ > Mark Moulding > > On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 10:40:43 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > >> I have a couple of HP RF sig gen that have the tunable cavity klystron in >> them, no nixies in those though... >> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:19 AM chuckrr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> NIce! I bought a similar one 25 years ago at the Orlando, FL hamfest >>> out in the parking lot for $5. >>> >>> Made by CMC. Got it home, was going to scrap for parts but powered it >>> up only to find that it works just fine! >>> >>> Super accurate frequency counter, it has the reference in an oven so >>> once the temp. stabilizes it's very very accurate. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---- Original Message ---- >>> From: "Bill Notfaded" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: 6/8/2021 9:20:43 AM >>> To: "neonixie-l" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Need some Nixies? Not my sale >>> >>> Is that the frequency reference in lower left in the 5th picture? Wow >>> if that's the reference oscillator that's a big old school one for sure. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 6:32:01 AM UTC-7 martin martin wrote: >>> >>>> HP 5245L Nixie Tube Counter from Sandia Labs, Los Alamos, Manhattan >>>> Project https://ebay.us/smh2NB >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c3bc40c6-ac1c-41a9-8769-117ae504e3e3n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c3bc40c6-ac1c-41a9-8769-117ae504e3e3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/202106080919438.SM680086%40ADT-IM1 >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/202106080919438.SM680086%40ADT-IM1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/0eaf203c-4aba-403f-a783-4f87beb21972n%40googlegroups.com.
