[Amateur-repairs] Old test eqpt? Chuck it? Refurbish it?

We seem to have been overtaken by the miniaturisation of Anno Domini
when VNAs and the TinySA give us almost everything we need in a size
not much bigger than a packet of cigarettes.

What then, to do with shelves full of the test eqpt slowly amassed
over 50 years but now worth almost nothing, perhaps only 5 or 10
shekels / dollars / pounds sterling at the various rallies and hamfests,
hardly worth the hassle of trying to sell it?

I'm thinking of my valve (tube to the Left Pondians :-) ) RF sig genny,
AF sig genny, RF millivoltmeter, bench DVM, freq counter,
homebrew capacitance meter; all taking shelf space that is on
increasing scarcity of shelf space in the shack and all of which has been
superseded by miniaturisation.

There's even a W95 laptop in there somewhere purely to support
the ICOM PCR1000 RX, long made redundant by RTL-SDR


73 DE G4SDW (Was G8DXY) GQRP #3339 Gareth



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