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

 

I got my first ham license in 1955 when I was 15. At that time my family was very poor and I had no test equipment at all. By 1958, I had acquired a cheap VOM that I used constantly to repair my own meager station equipment and neighbor's radios and black and white TVs. Tubes were tested at the local drug store. As time went on and I was able to earn money, I acquired more test equipment building from kits, and buying at flea markets, garage sales, and auctions. Now I have power supplies, a signal tracer, a VTVM, a digital VOM, an analog VOM, audio and RF signal generators, a scope, a frequency counter, a capacitor checker, and a tube tester. I don't' think I could do without any of them. However, the digital VOM gets used the most. 73, Glenn, W8EXX

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From: "Jose V. Gavila" [eb5agv@amsat.org]
Date: 09/24/2012 04:27 PM
To: Amateur-repairs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Amateur-repairs] Poll: Which test equipment do you use in your radio repairs?

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

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