I'm sorry Fred, while I empathise with your situation, I began the givaway with the rule that it was for non first-world citezins only. You're not the only person to have asked and it would be unfair to change the rules halfway through.
That leaves 5 eligable entrants.
elex_enthusiast
freebil
BravoV
YU2
lordsteinI have to say that I kinda hoped that one persons story would stick out and be an obvious choice! This hasn't happened and I wish I had 5 scopes to give away. Unfortunately I only have one. So with nothing distiguishing one person above another, I have decided on an overly complicated and idiotic scheme to let the scope pick the winner
I realise that some of the entrants already have a scope. I don't feel that is a disqualifier. Everyone wants to upgrade sometimes! I only hope that the old scope will go to a good home and not under the bench to gather dust.
I fed a noise signal from my signal generator into the scope. Where the trace crosses the horizontal grid marks, I have treated like a clock. If the noise is above 0v, I have recorded a binary 1, where it is below, a binary 0
I stopped the trace 5 times. Each time I stopped, I assigned that binary number to the contestants in order of their entry. The highest number wins.
Let me point out, that if I made any errors manually decoding the trace, take that as an uninentional extra layer of randomness!
You can check out the video to see who scored the highest!
https://youtu.be/zJMJLdvbvEQIf the winner wants to PM me their details, I'll get this sent out. If I get no response in 48 hours or no satisfactory shipping arrangements can be made, the prize is forfeit to the next highest and so on.
It would be nice if the winner would post some pics of them using the new scope!