[Amps] Advice on instruments for ham use

[Floyd Sense]

Pete - last spring I bought a Tektronix 2235 from a fellow at the Charlotte 
hamfest who has a business of restoring and selling used good quality 
scopes.  He replaces the CRT if necessary and does a complete calibration. 
Saw him at the Shelby, NC hamfest over Labor Day weekend.  I believe his 
home is in Atlanta and think I've seen his ads somewhere.  I'll try and find 
my receipt so I can give you his name.

The 2235 is a nice light-weight dual trace (100 MHz) scope with delayed 
sweep, etc.  I picked up a pair of new Chinese probes (1X/10X) on eBay and 
they work just fine for my radio work.

Here's the incredible part of the deal I made: I forgot my checkbook that 
day, and the guy told me to just take the scope home and try it out and then 
send him a check!  I looked at a lot of other scopes that individuals were 
selling at hamfests and there was always something lacking.  This guy's 
scopes are all very clean and working perfectly.

K8AC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr at contesting.com>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: [Amps] Advice on instruments for ham use


> I'm interested in acquiring a used solid-state oscilloscope for ham use. 
> I know this isn't the place to ask, but hope that people who hang out here 
> can point me to a ham radio homebrew or similar mailing list where people 
> would have good advice on which models, what to pay, etc.  There are 
> skillions of Google results based on searching for the above topics but 
> nothing, so far, that looks like the right answer.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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