I'm not at 50 posts yet but I've had an account here for over a year, and have been lurking even more. I can always try!
I'd love to win this great oscilloscope
Count me in
Would like to be a winner.
my poor Tek 2232 with his small 4k memory wants to retire
and makes a high pitch tone .
Hello Dave! What an honor it is to be read by you here on page 15. But what am I? Just a forum post, of course.
But behind it is an electrical engineering student from Germany. For my circumstances of course, I test and repair everything I get my hands on and every idea of a neat and handy device has to become reality on my desk. Unfortunately there are not many students here thinking the same way... i cant't get it but nevermind. As you can guess my equipment really moves at the lowest limit. Regarding something to call scope my pride and joy is one of the famous Toy-Scope JYE Tech DSO138. Far away even from half-serious low-cost equipment but identified not only once the bugs in my projects. So... i can't complain for the money, but I get to know it's limitations every time.
I currently have an amp from the 80's and a guitar radio transmitter on the table that need to be repaired. In addition, I am currently doing a feasibility study to see if I can develop my own sensors for a Lego robot. So your good Keysight scope is desperately needed! Without the right equipment working such this out is just annoying and time-consumin. How about an exchange with my JYE Tech DSO138
?
By the opportunity to get through to you here:
I just recently came across your videos on youtube, but man you got me at the first shot. Now i spend maybe 4 hours a day to catch up all the good stuff i missed. Really great work here from you!
My good old Tektronix 465 stoped working some time ago. I really loved that scope! Now I'm using a Sony Tektronix 335, but it's small display an I feel I could use something better.
PSE count me in
For once in my life, I got to win something.
Regards LB3VE
Usually I dont have much lucky but lets try
EDIT: well it seems that I dont even qualify on rules :-/
I'm in. Would be a nice upgrade from my old Rigol.
I was trying to access EEVblog today to update a thread with more data I've discovered, and something was wrong with the routing. Traceroutes and other diagnostics confirmed it wasn't on our end, and I had this awful, terrible, sickening feeling that something had gone horribly wrong (like Dave had been offered a job "too good to pass up") and our beloved EEVblog was gone for good.
SO happy to see my fears were unfounded.
Even if I don't win a scope (which I would give to my son who would benefit from having a scope to take with him to college in the next year or so), many thanks for all of your hard work, Dave. Quite the community you've built here!
Shameless plug: Yes, my son is a real human being and he would definitely benefit from having a scope at university. If one of those scopes finds its way to my home, it will help launch the education and career of a member of the next generation of Engineers. I can't imagine a more worthwhile place for a freebie scope to end up!
Thank you!
Hello, my wife kicked me out and is holding my entire workshop hostage. I'm starting over from scratch...
Hi, I've only been lurking this forum, registered now to give a shot at this opportunity. I'm a software guy interested in electronics, and maybe have sort of a project idea lately. Your videos and commentaries, as well as the forum, are a great source of information on electronics design, conveying all that experience, it's really an enabler. So I was looking at scopes, I have a Tektronix 2213A but I might want to be able to look at digital timings and for that I'll need a digital scope. I liked these Keysights among the ones I looked at. Thanks!
I never won a prize at some contest. Maybe this will be My first (and the best)!?
Seriously, I never ever won anything at contest, lottery, etc.
I'm a first year MSc ECE student without a scope.
Without lab equipment, with DMMs only, hardly I could make some progress.
I have at least three projects in my head, some of them on paper, but without proper signal generator and scope those project ain't get alive.
Currently active project is an incandescent bulb dimmer build with MOSFET instead of SCR. Another project is optical sensing, then ultrasound measurement I never got the chance to experiment with, etc.
So, pretty please, maybe this time I could win something!
In. edit: If i am the lucky person, I will give someone else my new* Rigol DS1054Z and share the love.
*= used for less than 10 hrs
as a students we have a lot of projects but never had the equipment for it with poor lab equipment in my beloved ( faculty of engineering alexandria university ) and limited time in labs it's actually zero gain it would be a great step ahead if i have my own lab