Hi Paul,
It has lots of uses. Get the Tek book Time Domain Reflectrometry
Measurements for insights.
I use it to test every cable, connector, and adapter I buy from ham fests
the Chinese, and anyone else. It doesn't go into my drawer until I confirmed
it is stable, the connections are sound, and the impediance is 50 Ohms (or
not more than 53 ohms if you are dealing with RG-53.
Dennis Tillman W7PF
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[email protected]Subject: [TekScopes] What can you do with a 1502?
I pulled a 1502 TDR out of the buck a pound box at Dayton a few years back
and finally got it completely fixed the other week. I had to fab a battery
pack and then fix the charging circuitry, but otherwise it was fine.
Turned out I had an immediate need for it to measure how much coax I had
left on a roll (answer: exactly enough to do a job). Pretty handy getting
an answer without having to string the cable or unrolling the entire reel
and finding out I'm a foot short.
Anyone have any neat applications for one of these, other than the obvious
ones of finding cable breaks and identifying where connectors are?
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Paul Amaranth, GCIH | Rochester MI, USA
Aurora Group, Inc. | Security, Systems & Software
paul@... | Unix & Windows
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Dennis Tillman W7PF
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