Hi folks,
just to give you a quick update, the scope month scopes finally arrived even in Germany. Well, to be exact, the distributor already had them in stock for 3 weeks but they apparently hadn’t found any time to hand one to me until today. Germany seems to be a bit special in this respect, they don’t ship them via parcel service as in other countries, they insist to hand them to you by a distributor sales representative. So I got an invitation to visit the distributors HQ in Reutlingen today, a ~80km drive from where I live, to get my scope handed to me there. Kind of weird, but yeah, that’s how it is so I jumped into my car, heading north. To add a little drama to it, we had massive rainfalls and a lot of heavy floodings in that area the night before and I was a little bit anxious about closed roads or worse. Check it out, all hell broke loose:
But all went well, the sales rep was very friendly and gave me a short introduction to the scope. It was a bit of an unusual situation for both of us, he probably wasn’t used to deal with private customers (they usually only deal with businesses) and I was only listening to him with half an ear because, to be honest, all I wanted was to grab my scope and drive home with it as fast as I could... But it was all hunky dory, nothing to complain about... I’ll keep it running over night to check if it’s stable and will do the recommended firmware update tomorrow.
Thanks to the whole scope month team for this awesome giveaway, I entered it with no real hopes of winning, just for the fun of it and now there’s a fantastic shiny new scope sitting on the bench right in front of me. Somehow, I still can’t believe it :-).
And thanks to Dave, because he is the host of this forum, the place where I've learned about the giveaway. Without the EEVblog forum I probably never would have known about it.