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

I'm in the same boat. I'm presently clearing out some old electronic stuff that I'll never get around to using (PCs etc).... I have some test equipment too, 2 oscilloscopes, sig gens etc. I was going to offer them to anyone (I have a local radio club that some members may be interested.) I also have a large AC transformer that would be good for a tube type transmitter. But how many would be interested in rolling their own! It came out of a Tesla arc generator.

I'm also deleting files on old 3.5 inch floppies. So far I have over 500 ready for recycle....and have at least that much more..... There's a place where i can drop them off, but I've yet to find the place... Its hidden in an industrial complex!

Oh the fun of collecting and hoarding over 25 years.... 

Best Regards

Phil
KD2HTN / WA2069SWL

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On Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 10:37:14 AM EDT, Gareth Evans via groups.io <headstone255=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

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superseded by miniaturisation.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