At 9/3/2007 11:31 PM, you wrote: >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.
There were lots of IFR 1200s at Dayton this year; the market prices should be dropping as more analog-only test equipment hits the surplus market. Bob NO6B
