He's got a CB ServiceMaster in the left center of the picture. Shucks with that he can get rid of most of the other clutter
rats nest!
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Randy Kokes #1 CB Tech In The Country
- Thread starter Mudfoot
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rats nest!
$500k of equipment?
Must've inhaled too much of that "magic smoke" that comes out of them radios once in a while....
~Cheers~
Must've inhaled too much of that "magic smoke" that comes out of them radios once in a while....
~Cheers~
Interesting picture....
The only test gear there that I would rate as useful to me would be the big old HP8657? sig gen, the DVM and what looks like a decent dummy load.
(all circled and total value would be about £800 used)
I already have several sig gens and DVMs but I guess you can never have too many sig gens etc
The little Racal frequency counter is also circled as a nice bit of kit but I'm OK for counters.
The rest of it looks like antiquated stuff of interest only to nostalgic collectors/users.
Sure there are some nice Tek 76xx mainframes with various plug ins and an old HP182 c/w spectrum analyser plug in but this stuff isn't worth the bench space to most RF engineers in 2013.
So if you subtract the nostalgia/collector value of the various old HP and Tektronix stuff and look at that bench through the eyes of an RF engineer in 2013 there is probably only about £2k of useful RF test gear there that is worth purchasing. (i.e. the stuff I listed above plus maybe the HP182 as a very basic spectrum analyser and the Tek scope)
When I used to repair CBs as a student in the 1980s I used an ancient old Tek 585A scope, a Marconi TF2430 counter and a Marconi TF2015 signal generator. I also had a homemade two tone generator plus a homemade RF probe and various DVMs and AVO type meters and a basic CB power meter and dummy load. It was enough to do the job and I think it would still do the job today. I bought it all on student income and it paid for itself several times over in repair/servicing income.
That was all you needed TBH. Although some techs insisted on a deviation meter for FM I always found the best judge of FM deviation setting was the customer
The only test gear there that I would rate as useful to me would be the big old HP8657? sig gen, the DVM and what looks like a decent dummy load.
(all circled and total value would be about £800 used)
I already have several sig gens and DVMs but I guess you can never have too many sig gens etc
The little Racal frequency counter is also circled as a nice bit of kit but I'm OK for counters.
The rest of it looks like antiquated stuff of interest only to nostalgic collectors/users.
Sure there are some nice Tek 76xx mainframes with various plug ins and an old HP182 c/w spectrum analyser plug in but this stuff isn't worth the bench space to most RF engineers in 2013.
So if you subtract the nostalgia/collector value of the various old HP and Tektronix stuff and look at that bench through the eyes of an RF engineer in 2013 there is probably only about £2k of useful RF test gear there that is worth purchasing. (i.e. the stuff I listed above plus maybe the HP182 as a very basic spectrum analyser and the Tek scope)
When I used to repair CBs as a student in the 1980s I used an ancient old Tek 585A scope, a Marconi TF2430 counter and a Marconi TF2015 signal generator. I also had a homemade two tone generator plus a homemade RF probe and various DVMs and AVO type meters and a basic CB power meter and dummy load. It was enough to do the job and I think it would still do the job today. I bought it all on student income and it paid for itself several times over in repair/servicing income.
That was all you needed TBH. Although some techs insisted on a deviation meter for FM I always found the best judge of FM deviation setting was the customer
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