Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Re: [Amateur-repairs] Poll: Which test equipment do you use in your radio repairs?

 

Hello Boyd,
it is very nice!
Unffortunatelly I dont know this equipment. But I can imagine your
happyness for own it!
I can not remember my 1st buildation but I build a lot of audio amps and
ligth effects like strobos and sequential before I nkew the Ham Radio
World!!!
But I think I have to learn a lot with You all forum members!!!

Best 73's,

Silva.

On 25-09-2012 07:25, Boyd Van Horn wrote:
>
> Silva and Jose and others. Years ago spectrum Analyzers were about
> $280.00- now have gone out of sight but sure nice to have. One of the
> pieces of gear that I wore out was a combination analyzer and IF
> tracker that RCA made. You could check the RF, IF or audio sections
> and when you plugged it all together, you had a receiver. When I built
> the Transmitter in my QRZ.COM 1949 picture I was going to an
> electronic school in Omaha, NE. It had (2) 813's in the final, with a
> separate VFO. The NC 57 was purchased from Leo Meyerson at World Radio
> for $72.00 ( which amount he allowed me to pay in installments). BTW,
> This is one of the best forums on Google. 73, Boyd, W0BUW
>
> --- On Mon, 9/24/12, Silva <py8elo@yahoo.com.br
> <mailto:py8elo%40yahoo.com.br>> wrote:
>
> From: Silva <py8elo@yahoo.com.br <mailto:py8elo%40yahoo.com.br>>
> Subject: Re: [Amateur-repairs] Poll: Which test equipment do you use
> in your radio repairs?
> To: Amateur-repairs@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Amateur-repairs%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, September 24, 2012, 5:27 PM
>
>
>
> Hello Boyd and all,
> I has worked on electronics repairs sence 1978 and as You, I has
> purchase a lot of test equipmenet and has build some other.
> For now I have some Scopes (2 HP 54502A, 2 Kikusui COR5500U and a
> Tektronix 475A), some service monitors(01 Marconi 2955A, 01 marconi
> 2955B, 01 HP 8920A and 01 HP 8924C), some RF Power meters, some RF and
> audio generators, some Spetrum analyzers, some analog and digital
> multimeters, and another test equipments. But before I get these
> instruments, I already has solved many problems for several years.
> As Jose Gaviila I also think about to get a HP-8753C (300kHz to 6GHz
> VNA) or Anritisu VNA master 5KHz-6GHz MS2026B but it is too much!!!
> I hope some day I can get one these!!!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Silva.
>
> On 24-09-2012 17:24, Jose V. Gavila wrote:
> >
> > Hello Boyd,
> >
> > > Have been doing electonic repair since 1949 so have accumulated every
> > > piece of test gear imaginable. Have more than one of most. In some
> > > instances you need more than the basics, but if you have a good vtvm,
> > > signal generator, both audio and RF, Scope and lot's of schematic
> > > knowledge, you can solve almost any problem. 73,Boyd, W0BUW
> >
> > I agree 110% with you :-)!
> >
> > I started this thread as I am in a similar position (regarding test gear
> > I own). Most of it is unused 99% of the time. Well, at least I have
> > fixed most of these units, so they have been already useful to learn new
> > things, like working on pesky SMPSs!. And my plan is to go from fixing
> > to designing, so then an, for example, HP-8753C (300kHz to 6GHz VNA)
> > will make some sense. But for the repair work, it is seldom used.
> >
> > Thanks for all your contributions to this thread. Please, keep it
> > going :-)!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > JOSE
> >
> > --
> > 73 EB5AGV - JOSE V. GAVILA - IM99sm La Canyada - Valencia(SPAIN)
> > http://agvradio.com AGVradio
> > http://jvgavila.com Personal WEB
> >
> >
>
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