Wanted: Free/Cheap oscilloscope for beginner - Germany

[0201m]

Hello Forum,
as a Student interested in electronic i'm thinking of buying an oscilloscope. Since digital oscilloscope are really expensive and i only got a small budget i'm wondering if someone around Germany has an old analog oscilloscope not in use anymore. Two channel would be great to have . I'm currently living in Bavaria, Germany.
My Budget is roughly 50€ ~ 70$

Thanks in advance,
Marco

[madires]

You'll always see some old Hamegs (2ch, >=20 MHz) on Ebay for around  30-50 bucks. But don't fall for the commercial sellers with insane prices.

[0201m]

Hi,
first thanks for the quick reply, i've already looked on ebay, but all the hameg (and other brand) oscilloscopes are sold at a price higher than 100€, they seem to have quite higher prices here in Germany for analog oscilloscopes

[KJDS]

I've got these listed on ebay,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hitachi-V-552-50MHz-analog-dual-channel-oscilloscope-/251275425801

PM me if interested, I can do it for £79 delivered to Germany.

[madires]

Just checked Ebay.de. Currently there are about 10 Hamegs for €1-30.

[lindworm]

I've been checking scopes on the german ebay for the past week, most <40MHz scopes went for less than 80€.

But make sure, that you get a photo of the scope actually showing both traces on the screen.

Regards
Lindworm

[0201m]

Thanks guys for all the replies, i will try my luck on an old HM203-4, i read on the Internet that they are good and reliable scopes

[kripton2035]

Just checked Ebay.de. Currently there are about 10 Hamegs for €1-30.

not sure ... they are biddings, so the price can end higher
the buy it now are more than 100€, even 200-300€ for a 20MHz scope ! come on ..

[madires]

Just checked Ebay.de. Currently there are about 10 Hamegs for €1-30.

not sure ... they are biddings, so the price can end higher

Sure, they can end at a much higher price. My advise is to determine a maximum price and stop bidding if that threshold is exceeded. Otherwise you'll pay more than you would normally do, pushed by the fun of bidding (it has to be mine :-).

the buy it now are more than 100€, even 200-300€ for a 20MHz scope ! come on ..

Nearly all buy-it-now offers suck. Absolutely insane prices! I looked several times for older network stuff (Cisco, Juniper) and guess what, just buy-it-now offers from professional sellers and totally overpriced. I stopped looking.

[0201m]

Damn, got overbidden on 2 auctions by now

[0201m]

Thanks for all your adive, got an perfectly good Trio CS1830 for 33€ + 1 probe