TA-0421: Update Sept 2024 - What is coming next

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Good to hear from you again Tony. I'm in love with your lab. More and more I find myself hanging out with techies who call their workshops 'labs', because that's what they are. The transition point between 'workshops' and 'labs' appears to be the installation of a GPS disciplined crystal-ovenized frequency reference that is then connected to all the rest of the test equipment on the bench(s). I crossed over to 'lab' status many years ago. A home-brew WWVB disciplined 1 MHz double oven crystal reference in 1991 led to obtaining a rubidium std, that then led to the GPS referenced 10 MHz standard and distribution system. I used to think I was just crazy. But now I see I'm part of a worldwide group of people who quietly put together precision electronics labs in which to experiment and work on their projects. Of course, I'm also crazy, but now I know I'm far from alone in my craziness.

Hi there,love your videos and longtime subscriber of your channel, i see you have a couple of great yaesu HF radios what is your call sign, mine is DV5CAJ from the philippines, cheers.

It looks like Rigol is trying to copy the looks of a LeCroy Waverunner. I use both LeCroy and Tek scopes, but my LeCroy is a four channel 350 MHz scope. I believe it's a 9425, and an older scope, but still performs great.

I ended up replacing frontpanel switches on one of those RACAL counters.. They seem to fail after a while (decades...Lol). Always enjoy your videos

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Tony is going to create sleepless nights for all us nerds out here. Especially interested into the Rigol scope. Maybe you should borrow the monitor from Peter's TRX lab and hook it up to the Rigol. That would beat the boring filter curve he has been showing us for years. Rigol's cheapest 802 has been hacked to be an 900 series going from 70MHz to nearly 250MHz.

Rigol scope will be interesting to see, I am looking at their MSO 5000 series as the dual channel waveform generator will be useful for me and I don't know of another scope with a dual channel waveform built into it.

I am looking forward to seeing how you get on with those new RIGOL Scopes Tony, that Fluke 1952a was a brilliant counter, i remember changing the Caps around the PSU in one of them, beautifully built inside.

No matter how many frequency counters you deploy, "you can't beat the laws of physics, Captain!" :-) Looking forward to the upcoming episodes, Tony. Lovely stuff!

Hey Tony! Wow, dat was een hele verzameling. Waar haal je de tijd vandaan om die allemaal te behandelen? ;-) Wel weer mooie dingetjes toegevoegd aan je collectie. Kun je die nog wel kwijt of moet je onderhand een ruimte buiten de deur gaan huren? Vind het wel prachtige exemplaren die je zo liet zien, je hebt er echt een neus voor om die te vinden!

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Ha Tony, ik volg je al heel lang en heb veel plezier van hoe je dingen test. Ik heb ook een "lab" maar niet zoveel equipment als jij en ben soms wel (in goede zin) jaloers op al die mooie dingen die voorbij komen. Maar ja, het is niet anders.
Mocht je ooit iets kwijt willen wat je toch niet gebruikt, graag aan mij denken 😀👍
Succes met je leuke yt kanaal. Hartelijke groeten Ron Elias

Very nice gear there! I recognise a certain ebay seller from the photo, their name scotttrade - I had a big problem with that seller when something arrived damaged and they took many days to reply to messages and were unhelpful and rude, and I did not get a full refund. I advise anyone not to deal with them.