[Amps] Advice on instruments for ham use

[Chuck (Jack) Hawley]

I used one from 1973 or so until 1995. Great scope...on 8 hours a day for 22 years...not triggered unless being used...somewhere along the way, the fan quit and ran that way for at least a year...didn't seem to matter...and I burned out a 50 ohm input termination once and some indicator bulbs. I could see a single 3 ns pulse when I was looking for a digital design startup problem if I set the single sweep, pull down the shade and turn of the ceiling lights at the lab...put my face into the screen. I had a storage scope (466 I think) but the 485 worked too well to bother. As far as I know it is still doing fine. I didn't care for HP scopes. Not enough anode voltage to see that single sweep pulse if needed. It's a 350 MHz scope and Tek was always conservative with their ratings.
Chuck, KE9UW

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces at contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Brad Pioveson W9FX
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 13:56 PM
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Re: [Amps] Advice on instruments for ham use
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> Comments on the Tek 485, anyone?
> 
> 73
> 
> 
> Brad, W9FX
> 

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