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 > <[email protected]> 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 -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
