On 8/11/2019 1:36 PM, Dennis Tillman W7PF wrote:
The electronics industry lost a great company when they went out of business.
I agree - I have been collecting and using GR instruments for more than 40 years, and collecting and using HP instruments almost as long. The only Tek instruments that I own are my 453 'scope (second version with the FETs but still using pencil HV rectifiers) and my 1503 TDR (as Scotty said in the Star Trek Next Gen episode "Relics" "no A, B, C, or D"). Mine is the unlettered original 1503 with a CRT, not the (frequently failed or failing) LCD screen used in the later, lettered, versions. I have gotten rid of or am getting rid of almost all of my vacuum tube HP instruments (except my working 434A calorimetric power meter and its parts junker) - most of the HP that I now use is from the '70s, which I use in shop and field. The Tek 453 is the shop scope and the 1503 TDR travels with me for field work. The GR instruments used in the field are used little enough that they live at home.
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Dale H. Cook, GR/HP/Tek Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Dale H. Cook