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

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 01:11 PM, Gareth Evans wrote:

There's a subsidiary consideration there, and that is that older gear, whether
test eqpt or rigs, if made from individual components then it is repairable.

But when a transistor smaller than the tip of a pin inside the VNA's chips
fails then it's a dustbin job.

Purchase two VNA's then, they are cheap enough.

 

And no,I am not being facetious.

 

When you can get a VNA for a lousy $50, or an a decent Chinesium HT

for $20 delivered then who cares about the cost.

 

In todays world thats a few coffees at Starbucks or a Happy Burger

and fries from a well known outlet.

 

If I'm calibrating a rig for WSPR use then I ain't gonna be wasting my 

time using an old BC221. Not worth the effort unless you're running

an engineering technology museum or using it as a prop to teach

engineering students how much we have progressed.

 

@ndy

 

 

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