On Sep 1, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Eric Lemmon wrote: > Maybe I'm just a crab, but I wonder if you'd be better off buying a > good used IFR or H-P service monitor that has more features, for > about the same price. Keep in mind that a new service monitor with > a few very useful options- the R2600D comes to mind- is in the > $15,000 class. You get what you pay for! But, hey, if you have > only the basic needs for measurement of power, center frequency, > and audio deviation, maybe the Ramsey unit is ideal. Choose wisely.
Eric's not a crab, he's right... It took me three years of searching and asking every single person I knew, but I eventually found an IFR 1500 for $2000 from a private seller who even performed a repair on it when he pulled it out of storage and found that it had a video sync problem. I wouldn't spend $4K on the Ramsey box. I was tempted MANY times -- and told not to do it by friends who had already found their "dream machines', and they were right. Another friend found an HP 8920B for $500... which really was a deal "too good to be true"... it's off-frequency. He'll have to have some calibration work done... but if the repairs are done properly and for a reasonably low cost, he'll have an amazing piece of equipment there that'll last him a very long time. (And even with it having problems, I'm jealous.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
