Yes, the 2246A looks really good, thanks to Kay for the opportunity as my old 465B is getting a little long in the tooth.
Folks, where and when is the next meet up? I can’t find this info in the thread.
Folks, where and when is the next meet up? I can’t find this info in the thread.
TSO seat sale, last days of June. $26/seat, good seats left. Stravinsky's Firebird (didn't we all buy it to show off our systems), Sibelius' violin concerto, and Prokofieff Sym #1. Discount code "WETHENORTH"
Might be some seats left for Orff's Carmina Burana. Certainly on your bucket list, eh.
Ben
Might be some seats left for Orff's Carmina Burana. Certainly on your bucket list, eh.
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I have one active scope and two 'spares', one of them still in the garage waiting for me to power it on. Oh, and another one that I fished out of the e-waste that looks like it's decades old and it's some kind of ancient portable one and I fished it out because it's a kind of test gear archaeological find. I think that meets the criteria for geekdom 🙂
Doesn't matter 😀. I have 5 scopes, from 100MHz to 50GHz, and gave away for free two more (a Tek 453 and a Tek 2246) to save some space.
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syn08,
I used a 50GHz scope at one time, for 10Gbps fibre channel designs. There were 4 XAUI channels that go in/out of the Intel 10G serdes from a Marvell Alaskan XGMII part.
Needs vary, some buy this stuff just for bragging rights, geek or no geek. For a big company we had to write up a damn good reason in order to have a budget set aside to purchase an expensive scope or anything else for that matter.
Bigun,
I say syn08 buys, just based on his scope bragging, part of his initiation, that is if he decides he wants to join our elite group. If he does not drink, I have other stuff for him to chew on instead of his cud
Can you explain why you need a 50GHz scope,esp for DIY audio type designs?
I used a 50GHz scope at one time, for 10Gbps fibre channel designs. There were 4 XAUI channels that go in/out of the Intel 10G serdes from a Marvell Alaskan XGMII part.
Needs vary, some buy this stuff just for bragging rights, geek or no geek. For a big company we had to write up a damn good reason in order to have a budget set aside to purchase an expensive scope or anything else for that matter.
Bigun,
I say syn08 buys, just based on his scope bragging, part of his initiation, that is if he decides he wants to join our elite group. If he does not drink, I have other stuff for him to chew on instead of his cud
If it puts out 2 watts thats about 103 db on the shop speakers.
Headphones themselves are kind of a solitary hobby, hard to entertain the rest of a group while some one wears headphones
Headphones themselves are kind of a solitary hobby, hard to entertain the rest of a group while some one wears headphones
Because my fun goes well beyond audio. You have no idea how much fun is to experiment with microwave circuits built on microstrip. It's 90% clever design and testing, and only 10% effort to build. Audio is the other way around.
I posted these pics before 😀. Everything a human can hope to get for measurements from 1uHz to 50GHz. Frequency range decreases from left to right. Everything is controlled by a time/frequency GPS reference and is on GPIB/HPIB. ATE software is another fun thing to do.
Trivia: the whole lab powered up takes about 80 amps.
BTW, too late for initiation, been there last time but didn't last long; you guys were looking way to happy to be bothered by a kranky old fart as myself 😀.
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WoW - I can just imagine all the things I could break with that much equipment.
Wheres the beer fridge?
Wheres the beer fridge?
Nice Lab !
Yeah, audio is in comparison almost like boring DC. 😀
Microwave stuff on the other hand is indeed cool black magic. 😀
Yeah, audio is in comparison almost like boring DC. 😀
Microwave stuff on the other hand is indeed cool black magic. 😀
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Way, way to late for drywall... The other half of the basement is full of CNC machinery and tooling. Good for milling precision microwave enclosures and waveguides. And of course audio front/back panels, etc...
No home theatre allowed in my basement 😀. This is a true man cave, if you ask me.