Author Topic: Keysight 6000X 6Ghz Voting Is Live vote for Carlos A. (Read 189330 times)

Neganur · « **Reply #575 on:** April 20, 2016, 05:23:37 pm »

Gz winners!

Fred27 · « **Reply #576 on:** April 20, 2016, 05:58:38 pm »

Put it this way, Nilu had better get 110% efficiency out of that water heater if that scope isn't going to be totally wasted.

rx8pilot · « **Reply #577 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:02:17 pm »

Everyone.... I am at a trade show all day today so will not be able to post til tomorrow. Just wanted to take a second to thank all of the EEVBlog for the support!

Keysight has decided to give me a scope! 6000x - LOADED! Its a win and the support here has a LOT to do with it.

Wish a had more time, but gotta run til tomorrow.

Sent from my horrible mobile....

kaz911 · « **Reply #578 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:06:44 pm »

congrats! I hope you will still greet all of us now that you are famous and "rich"

DimitriP · « **Reply #579 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:07:28 pm »

Quote from: rx8pilot on April 20, 2016, 06:02:17 pm

Everyone.... I am at a trade show all day today so will not be able to post til tomorrow. Just wanted to take a second to thank all of the EEVBlog for the support!

Keysight has decided to give me a scope! 6000x - LOADED! Its a win and the support here has a LOT to do with it.

Wish a had more time, but gotta run til tomorrow.

Sent from my horrible mobile....

Finally...some great news!!!

Enjoy the show

Howardlong · « **Reply #580 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:13:41 pm »

Quote from: rx8pilot on April 20, 2016, 06:02:17 pm

Everyone.... I am at a trade show all day today so will not be able to post til tomorrow. Just wanted to take a second to thank all of the EEVBlog for the support!

Keysight has decided to give me a scope! 6000x - LOADED! Its a win and the support here has a LOT to do with it.

Wish a had more time, but gotta run til tomorrow.

Sent from my horrible mobile....

Awesommmmme!!!!

ez24 · « **Reply #581 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:14:46 pm »

Quote from: rx8pilot on April 20, 2016, 06:02:17 pm

Everyone.... I am at a trade show all day today so will not be able to post til tomorrow. Just wanted to take a second to thank all of the EEVBlog for the support!

Keysight has decided to give me a scope! 6000x - LOADED! Its a win and the support here has a LOT to do with it.

Wish a had more time, but gotta run til tomorrow.

Sent from my horrible mobile....

Congratulations

Daniel said they were going to take care of you and they did. Hats off to Keysight

Edit - since this is so newsworthy I will start a new post

diyaudio · « **Reply #582 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:20:35 pm »

Quote from: rx8pilot on April 20, 2016, 06:02:17 pm

Everyone.... I am at a trade show all day today so will not be able to post til tomorrow. Just wanted to take a second to thank all of the EEVBlog for the support!

Keysight has decided to give me a scope! 6000x - LOADED! Its a win and the support here has a LOT to do with it.

Wish a had more time, but gotta run til tomorrow.

Sent from my horrible mobile....

Congrats, Never guessed they would do that. Their level of Marketing Footprint has been reached.

I'm more interested in making impression video(s) for a Keysight Spectrum Analyser month.... What you say Daniel/Keysight all this time domain give ways is getting boring

?

Fred27 · « **Reply #583 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:28:27 pm »

Great news, Carlos. Very impressed with Keysight. They'll definitely be the first place I look if I need some test equipment.

bingo600 · « **Reply #584 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:36:32 pm »

Whooaa NICE move Keysight

Wonder if we get a TEARDOWN

I'd understand if not.

/Bingo

StuUK · « **Reply #585 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:42:20 pm »

Congrats!

DimitriP · « **Reply #586 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:45:21 pm »

Quote from: bingo600 on April 20, 2016, 06:36:32 pm

Whooaa NICE move Keysight

Wonder if we get a TEARDOWN

I'd understand if not.

/Bingo

...or an unboxing party...

AndyC_772 · « **Reply #587 on:** April 20, 2016, 06:57:05 pm »

Wow, congratulations Carlos

Do please give us all an insight into how you actually use it, once you've had a chance to unbox it and have a play. I'm genuinely interested to see what kinds of signals you're probing, what techniques you use to get an accurate measurement, and what results you get from the 6000X.

Kjelt · « **Reply #588 on:** April 20, 2016, 07:09:50 pm »

Congratulations, thats great news Carlos.

tech5940 · « **Reply #589 on:** April 20, 2016, 07:22:02 pm »

Awesome news, congrats Carlos. And hats off to Keysight what a nice thing to do, very generous.

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lem_ix · « **Reply #590 on:** April 20, 2016, 07:23:20 pm »

Amazing! Keysight really stepped up to the challange

congratulations Carlos and indeed as someone mentioned, it would be interesting and educational to see what you do with it if you ever get time for a vid

Macbeth · « **Reply #591 on:** April 20, 2016, 07:29:52 pm »

Well done Carlos. I find the popularity contest facebook method of voting, especially on something like this, quite distasteful. But you clearly put a lot of effort into it and have a genuine use case.

Now hopefully (as you lost), Keysight just sell that spare junk 6000X "display model" to your business at a notional disposal cost, because "YOU DIDN'T WIN! NILU DID!"

Therefore it is NOT a prize!

ez24 · « **Reply #592 on:** April 20, 2016, 07:38:22 pm »

Quote from: Macbeth on April 20, 2016, 07:29:52 pm

Therefore it is NOT a prize!

It is a gift. Hope Carlos will explain what happens tax wise. There were lots of discussions on taxes.
Maybe he can start a Patreon quest to raise money for the taxes

https://www.patreon.com/

CustomEngineerer · « **Reply #593 on:** April 20, 2016, 07:39:21 pm »

Congrats

Edit: Also, don't forget, only 314 more days until next years Oscilloscope month.

Are we there yet?

What about now?

continuo · « **Reply #594 on:** April 20, 2016, 08:02:51 pm »

Quote from: ez24 on April 20, 2016, 07:38:22 pm

Quote from: Macbeth on April 20, 2016, 07:29:52 pm
Therefore it is NOT a prize!
It is a gift.

Now, that's interesting. Technically, it's not a prize, because he didn't win it. It is indeed more a gift, given to him by Keysight at good will. How about taxes on gifts, are there any in the US? I've tried to do a google search on it and that seems to be the case. BUT:

Who pays the gift tax?
The donor is generally responsible for paying the gift tax. Under special arrangements the donee may agree to pay the tax instead. Please visit with your tax professional if you are considering this type of arrangement.

(from some IRS website)

So, if I understand this correct, Keysight ist responsible to pay the gift tax on the scope, not Carlos? Would be even better than the contest prize, lol...

And what's up with David K. (second place, behind Nilu but ahead of Carlos), will he also get this 6000X "gift", though he got almost 50% of his votes (for some, cough, unknown mysterious reasons) removed?

Howardlong · « **Reply #595 on:** April 20, 2016, 08:33:58 pm »

Quote from: continuo

And what's up with David K. (second place, behind Nilu but ahead of Carlos), will he also get this 6000X "gift", though he got almost 50% of his votes (for some, cough, unknown mysterious reasons) removed?

Maybe a mug

Maybe a t-shirt.

Keysight DanielBogdanoff · « **Reply #596 on:** April 20, 2016, 08:55:00 pm »

Play nice, now. Even though the bulk of the ineligible voter profiles was for one entrant in particular, there was actually nothing in the T&Cs about voting services. An oversight on our part, of course. Even though we got a lot of flack for using Facebook, I'm glad we did. We were able to check a lot of profiles and see that there were actually a lot of valid votes and profiles. Or, at least, it was disguised well enough to fool us. Looking at the votes, it was very clear which profiles were valid and which weren't.

Interestingly enough, the top 3 all had a non-zero number of votes from these profiles.

We learned a lot by running this contest, and we really appreciate all of your feedback and support. If you hadn't rallied around Carlos (rx8pilot), we wouldn't have given him a scope.

PA0PBZ · « **Reply #597 on:** April 20, 2016, 09:06:02 pm »

I think Keysight handled this the best way they could, my respect to Keysight and Daniel

Macbeth · « **Reply #598 on:** April 20, 2016, 09:20:04 pm »

You know, when Daniel isn't setting fire to scopes on a BBQ, he's actually a very nice chap! I look forward to the next Keysight competition. It has been good fun all in!

Howardlong · « **Reply #599 on:** April 20, 2016, 09:23:32 pm »

Quote from: PA0PBZ on April 20, 2016, 09:06:02 pm

I think Keysight handled this the best way they could, my respect to Keysight and Daniel

Indeed, and it is to their credit.


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