17 Feb
2007
17 Feb
'07
9:05 a.m.
At 04:30 PM 2/15/2007 -0800, you wrote:
Tom Peters wrote:
Cool! Thanks.
At 12:28 PM 2/15/2007 -0500, you wrote:
I'm wondering if there's a list somewhere of just what plugins I can
drool over and/or search for. I'm not having any luck phrasing my search
properly so far. Like maybe a channel input amp that will give me better
bandwidth so I can do some VHF/UHF with it. I hear that the 7A26 is good
up to 200 mHz? Is that right?
Yup, correct. Go to http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~kahrs/testeq/7000.html
for tables and pix of 7000 series stuff. On Feb 14, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Tom Peters wrote:
I went back to them and countered with $240. I won the deal and will pay
$240 plus fiddy-two bucks to ship it. Woohoo!
I just missed out on a Tek 7904 scope (four trace)
with four plug- ins
for $299. Was that a deal? The plugins were 7A26 7A18 7CTIN and
7B53A.
Yes, that was a pretty decent deal, especially if you don't have
to pay to ship it. Assuming it's functional of course. They've been
known to go for less, especially if they're all beaten up, but if
it's in good shape a 7904 can easily fetch $299. Looks like
a 500mhz scope, but with plugins good for 200mhz and a
curve tracer.
Umm...the curve tracer (7CT1N probably) came with it?? That
would've been a *serious* score then. That plugin alone typically
goes for $150-300.
Are plugins for that scope readily avaiable and
reasonably priced?
Yes, they're all over the place. There are some really neat ones
available for 7000-series scopes, too...Differential amplifiers,
logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, the aforementioned curve tracer,
all sorts of stuff. It's a fantastic platform. The 7A29 is a single channel 1GHz plugin, 7B92A or
7B10/7B15 timebases.
Never having owned a decent scope before, please help me out a little.
Well, I do have a 60mhz Hickok that's really beat up.
If I want to get up to 500 MHz (70 cm is 400+ right?) I could try to locate
a 7A29, or maybe there's another cheeper one? That's question number 1.
2. Sounds like one definitely has to have a better timebase plugin, you
seem to be implying that, to make use of the bandwidth of the 7A29, right?
Which one, you list three. Or any of the above?
The S4/7S11/7T11 combo is cool if you want a10+GHz
sampling capability.
Yikes, I'm not sure I would know what to do with 10 GHz
capability.
I have a 7104 with 7A29s, 7B10/15 and S4/7S11/7T11 and
it is pretty cool
70s technology.
Don North
AK6DN
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