I ordered the 1054Z, which arrived yesterday and is still in the box. In between order and arrival, I found and bought a Tek 475A for a hundred bucks at a local ham fair. Now I have a working 250MHz two channel analog scope sitting on my bench - only needing to be cleaned and maybe calibrated - and a four channel, soon-to-be 100MHz digital scope sitting in a box.
Here's my question to the 1104Z owners... what do you do with your 1104Z scope that you couldn't do otherwise? and how often do you do it? I was raised on 475 class scopes and my imagination is rather limited, I guess, by what I already know how to do with them. The 1104Z, I am not so sure. Spending almost four hundred dollars on a new scope when I now have a perfectly good, if much less fancy, one sitting on the bench seems, well, questionable. So I am looking for use cases.
For reference, I use my gear for building, repairing and testing amateur radio gear. My current projects include a BitX40 transceiver and a home brew antenna impedance matching unit.
Thanks!