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[AF6LJ]

Shoes vs. O-scopes got me thinking...
shoes are all in pairs.
3) tennis shoes. Gym, everyday, ones falling apart.
2) dress shoes.
1) Work  boots
thinking of getting another pair of gym shoes.
1) Tek 2245.
Sue, I have more"shoes" than you...

You Do 

[AF6LJ]

It was a moment of weakness and it was cheap. I used a 130S on my very first fieldday when I was 13 so its fun to have one in the shack.  Other hams will understand...
btw, this guy was made in 1982!

Nice find.......

[TheSteve]

It was a moment of weakness and it was cheap. I used a 130S on my very first fieldday when I was 13 so its fun to have one in the shack.  Other hams will understand...
btw, this guy was made in 1982!

Nice find.......

I couldn't resist for 80 bucks.

[KJDS]

I'm down to about 40 pairs of shoes, having had a clear out a few years ago when I moved house.

I only have about a dozen scopes, only three of which work properly.

[AF6LJ]

It was a moment of weakness and it was cheap. I used a 130S on my very first fieldday when I was 13 so its fun to have one in the shack.  Other hams will understand...
btw, this guy was made in 1982!

Nice find.......

I couldn't resist for 80 bucks.

Oh Hell I would have scolded you had you walked past it for that price.

[xrunner]

Received a used Agilent U8001A power supply. The adjusting knob encoder didn't seem to work very well in one direction but OK in the other. 

I took that little board out and shot some deoxit in the encoder and that fixed the issue. Now I'm just going to clean it up a bit.

[Bud]

Got today this...
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[Bud]

Keysight was giving out these little goodies at a seminar, a combination of a gooseneck LED light and a laser pointer

Hah, just found out the batt cover has a magnet, so you can place it vertically on the bench. Neat! 

[bitseeker]

MSOS804A: 

Magnetic gooseneck: neat 

[Bud]

BTW, they said the new brand color is black. All equipment will be coming in black color ( not sure about handheld multimeters though)

[tautech]

Got today this...
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Holy hell.   
Sexy looking unit Bud. 

The Yaigol will be going down the road now.

[Bud]

Interesting BNC connectors on it.... Not you dad's BNC. You bet they sre not, this is a 20GHz beast for God's sake. If you zoom in you can see they do not have usual Teflon insulation around the center pin. The center pin looks more of a downscaled version of N- connector pin.

[tautech]

Interesting BNC connectors on it.... Not you dad's BNC. You bet they sre not, this is a 20GHz beast for God's sake. If you zoom in you can see they do not have usual Teflon insulation around the center pin. The center pin looks more of a downscaled version of N- connector pin.

One could see they looked different in the big image, but zoomed in 
They look arse about face.....pin in the socket, not in the plug. 

Anyways cool looking unit Bud  what options did you get with it.

[Falkra]

I just got this function generator, perfect for me (I am a beginner), to learn and practice on my (first) oscilloscope, a Metrix analog 2 channel 10 Mhz.

[HighVoltage]

Got today this...
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Nice looking scope
How much did you pay for it?

[Zbig]

Got today this...
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Nice looking scope
How much did you pay for it?

Isn't he saying that he's got a photo of a scope? That reminds me an online auction platform scam happening here few years ago where some crooks where "selling" people photos of a brand spanking new, latest and greatest smartphone model for the price of the actual hardware. The description was carefully worded in a way that it wasn't technically deceiving but when some poor overly-excited, anxious fellow wasn't paying enough attention, he was convinced that was the real deal and promptly handed the money.

Other time, I've seen ad addendum to an auction listing for a non-functional phone dummy, as the ones sometimes used on shop displays. He had to explain to the dumb bunch who was bidding like crazy one over another, quickly reaching the price of a real phone, what a freaking DUMMY means

[VK5RC]

A "Real" radio   (eh Hmmm,   well maybe),  anyway my first thermionic! Now I have to start reading about tubes! and how not to electrocute myself.  O0

[Falkra]

It looks awesome. 

[AF6LJ]

A "Real" radio   (eh Hmmm,   well maybe),  anyway my first thermionic! Now I have to start reading about tubes! and how not to electrocute myself.  O0

Looks to be well taken care of.
Nice

[Bud]

Got today this...
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Nice looking scope
How much did you pay for it?

Isn't he saying that he's got a photo of a scope?

That is right, I only got a photo   

[r4ptor]

Let's get started.

Rigol Signal Generator on its way, so is a nice sold ESD mat. Next month the old tektronixs scope will be replaced with a Rigol DS1054z.  Hunderts of parts from China are on their way  too

[bitseeker]

A "Real" radio   (eh Hmmm,   well maybe),  anyway my first thermionic! Now I have to start reading about tubes! and how not to electrocute myself.  O0

Wow, that's a beauty. Yeah, don't electrocute yourself or you won't be able to enjoy the radio for long. Just unplug it and do a teardown.

[MrSlack]

If you don't zap yourself at least once on something with tubes, you're doing it wrong.

My first zap was off a tube radio chassis I paid 20p from a jumble sale for. I had no idea the chassis was live.

[mmagin]

If you don't zap yourself at least once on something with tubes, you're doing it wrong.

My first zap was off a tube radio chassis I paid 20p from a jumble sale for. I had no idea the chassis was live.

Well, the tube part of the FT-101 is the final tubes, so it's a bit higher voltage than an ordinary tube receiver.

Personally, I haven't really accidentally gotten myself with a serious high voltage jolt since I was a kid with a strobe-light kit that didn't have a bleeder on the main capacitor.  Everything else has been tiny tingles or zaps from harmless stuff -- the strongest in recent memory was the time I tested a good electric flyswatter on my knuckles!

[AF6LJ]

45' of 7/8" hardline With type N male connectors for less than a buck a foot.

Correction...
It's 1/2" hardline...
Next time I will use my Good Eye.