? not sure about the dining room table unless you got a real good wife or sufficient funds to bribe her ?
I think the 5342/43 came out in the late 1970s early 80s so that would put this into the 40+ year range of age , the main limits if it comes to fixing things is the availability of parts or suitable replacements , although TTL or CMOS parts are still manufactured things get harder with ECL logic circuits , processors or MMICs especially if they were in TO package
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[email protected]Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
On 6/1/22 22:41, Samudra wrote:
I'm not sure what "ham friendly" means, On 5/25/22 17:31,
Samudra wrote:
Well,
<>?is your answer, IMHO.? Also, for
these old (failing) equipment that use TTL/CMOS chips, it's not worth
it to setup a whole test/service lab just to get things working. If it
doesn't work, and can't be reasonably fixed, out it goes - or provided
to someone who needs the spare parts, until all useful life is
scavenged. That actually does sound like what happens at hamfests and
trade between hams.
Oh good grief, this counter isn't THAT old. People fix stuff like this all the time. It's easier with a well-equipped lab, but people fix these things on their dining room tables every day.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
