I was a Tek aficionado for many many years. My first personal scope was a tek, my first work scope was a Tek. I've owned at least half a dozen over the decades. The three scopes I own today are Tek. But everything else on my lab bench has changed over to HP (with the exception of a couple of TM5006 mainframes full of specialty plugins).
The quality, availability, and most important to me, the consistency of HP gear has been impressive. I've yet to go into a lab where the majority of basic RF equipment, counters, sig gens, spectrum analyzers, etc was not HP. Unless they were lucky enough to have R&S. The ability to get manuals, parts, and just plain guidance on the HP gear has been great. Now if I can score an HP Primary or GPSDO standard, I'll be happy. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe in HPs case a unique situation occurred on the old gear. > That is there were and are people at agilent willing to take the time to > preserve their history. After all its still pretty fantastic stuff even at > 20, 30, and yes I have a piece in the 40-50 years old era. Generally > amazingly well built. I do know that when test and measurement was HP their > support was top notch both for me professionally and personally. It did > effect what I chose to buy for the business. But on the personal side they > always helped I was above board about why I was calling. > Ahhh for the good ole days. > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.