On Wednesday 07 February 2007 18:39, you wrote:
My late father used to say "Why do it simply, when complicated works
well too" (It looses something in translation)
I guess it was "Warum einfach wenn Mann komplizieren kann" or somesuch. My
German is pretty rusty.
To me, using an unknown scope is complicating things. Mind you, I wasn't
anywhere advocating a full calibration -- just a decent enough check to make
sure that your 100MHz mainframe and preamps are where they are supposed to
be.
Maybe my problem was that I was almost always getting the mainframes and
plugins separately, and the plugins were always in lots and always seemed to
be someones "reject" pile. 90% of them calibrated just fine, though.
I guess the proper advice would be: get a 7603 with plugins, coming out of
service in a lab somewhere, with a calibration sticker with dates in last 7-8
years. That'd be safe enough I guess.
Kuba
