[time-nuts] Tek to HP conversion... Was: Re: Fwd: FE-5680A Contact FEI

Tom Knox actast at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 17 19:14:04 UTC 2012


With Scopes the company that has impressed me is LeCroy, not only are all their manuals on line, but  where they really shine is service prices, their parts and repairs are very very reasonable.
Although Agilent, and Tektronix make fine products, I am now exclusively LeCroy.  And NO I do  not own stock in LeCroy.
Thomas Knox



> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:44:40 -0500
> From: bownes at gmail.com
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Tek to HP conversion... Was: Re: Fwd: FE-5680A Contact	FEI
> 
> I was a Tek aficionado for many many years. My first personal scope was a
> tek, my first work scope was a Tek. I've owned at least half a dozen over
> the decades. The three scopes I own today are Tek. But everything else on
> my lab bench has changed over to HP (with the exception of a couple of
> TM5006 mainframes full of specialty plugins).
> 
> The quality, availability, and most important to me, the consistency of HP
> gear has been impressive. I've yet to go into a lab where the majority of
> basic RF equipment, counters, sig gens, spectrum analyzers, etc was not HP.
> Unless they were lucky enough to have R&S.
> 
> The ability to get manuals, parts, and just plain guidance on the HP gear
> has been great.
> 
> Now if I can score an HP Primary or GPSDO standard, I'll be happy.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I believe in HPs case a unique situation occurred on the old gear.
> > That is there were and are people at agilent willing to take the time to
> > preserve their history. After all its still pretty fantastic stuff even at
> > 20, 30, and yes I have a piece in the 40-50 years old era. Generally
> > amazingly well built. I do know that when test and measurement was HP their
> > support was top notch both for me professionally and personally. It did
> > effect what I chose to buy for the business. But on the personal side they
> > always helped I was above board about why I was calling.
> > Ahhh for the good ole days.
> > Regards
> > Paul
> > WB8TSL
> >
> >
> >
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