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Living overseas, want to buy first scope, limited options, Rigol 1102z-e?
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Gordo:
I'm checking on a 1054Z from here in Thailand, but the dealer is slow to respond... We will see
scoper007:
Might need to take a look at here: https://www.es.co.th/detail.asp?Prod=125000086
Gordo:
Thanks scoper, but a bit outside my budget and Inclined to go with either Rigol or Siglent for the simple reason that they're so WIDELY followed and seemingly everything there is to be known about them is here and readily searchable on this very forum. I'm not a REAL engineer (lol) so my strategy is to stay within the safety of the herd, because I'm interested in experimenting on my projects, not my gear. I don't mind being just an "ordinary"zebra.
Gordo:
Well, I've ordered the Rigol 1054Z, good news is it's from a Thai supplier, rather than China or Hong Kong, meaning I'll have it in a few days rather than 2-3 weeks.
After checking out the hack info (super simple as opposed to some of the other scope hacks), I can see why it's become the Eevblog "standard" entry level scope. I think the extra 2 channels are probably going to be MUCH more useful to me than an additional 100MHz of BW would be, particularly because as an amateur radio operator of my type, pretty much all of the signals I'm interested in fall below 30MHz anyway. I thought that perhaps the newer models might offer some newer, useful features, but as far as I can determine, from a hardware perspective, they're just offering me a subset of what the 1054Z already has. Newer doesn't always mean better (maybe better for the bean counters at Rigol).

I very much appreciate all the guidance, especially from Fungus who just broke it all down to the bare nuts as far as what's what. I never received a response from the Thai Siglent distributor/vendor... I guess they didn't care about the sale. So I guess it just saved me some further teeth gnashing anyway. Rigol 1054Z (1104 really) it is. You can't argue with success, or at least I'm not qualified to do so, so I won't.

Surrender Dorothy....

Gordo

Thanks again everybody
Gordo:
Sucked it up and ordered the Uni-T UTG 962 AWG as well, also from a Thai dealer so it should get here much quicker as well. Yeah, I blew out my budget a little bit, but the more I thought about it, the less inclined I was to try and get in too cheap. In reality it was only $25 more than the FY6900. Wish I could have bought a level up on both the scope and the sig-gen, but I think both of these will serve me plenty well for now.

Both of these were "budget" choices, but I think they both qualify as "quality/budget" selections. You guys have been a LOT of help. Already thought of a dozen handy ways to use those extra scope channels.
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