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Rohde cmw500
coppercone2:
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--- Quote from: coppercone2 on September 09, 2023, 12:19:54 am ---I have a feeling the manager was gonna pick em up in his car at night ::) . Or the biggest ivy league dick heads EVER made that contract. Usually they specify dubious tax reasons.
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Did you ever imagine the initial buy price may have been so attractive the OEM didn't wanna see them profit at EOL and wrote such terms into the supply contract.
There are all sorts of tricks used to seal the deal.
IIRC, at one time HP had a warehouse full of such used equipment.
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stupid ass moves. Mean they dont wanna develop better stuff and stagnate if they are worried what their customers are gonna do with ancient shit (at the rate of technological progress!). I would see this company as a 'sick man'. If they were smart (instead of petty greedy) they would advertise this as a benefit towards purchase. You won't get fucked by capital expenses with us! This is like the company admitting to brain drain, choked r&D budget complaining that they will put themselves out of business because they can't innovate and improve. petty greedy & lazy
Bicurico:
@pdenisowski
Thanks for your insights. Please note that my comments were purely from the hobbyist/hackers perspective.
I do not recommend the activation of options on hardware that is commercially used or where the owner would have otherwise purchased said options.
Also, I am still unsure: does the CMW500 feature a similar spectrum analyser like the CMU200/CRTU or not?
The reason I ask is obvious: should one buy the CRW500 for this purpose, if one gets a great offer from surplus? If so, are there any advantages over the CMU200/CRTU?
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Bicurico on September 09, 2023, 07:52:08 am ---Also, I am still unsure: does the CMW500 feature a similar spectrum analyser like the CMU200/CRTU or not?
The reason I ask is obvious: should one buy the CRW500 for this purpose, if one gets a great offer from surplus? If so, are there any advantages over the CMU200/CRTU?
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Yes, the CMW500 has a spectrum analyzer feature like the CMU (see screenshots in my post above). In fact, it looks and functions almost identically to the CMU.
For the hobbyist I don't think there's much difference between a CMU and CMW as a generic spec an / sig gen, although I would have to check the specs. For the same price, I would get the CMW since it's newer hardware, but on the other hand there is a "community" of hobbyists using CMUs, so the "support" for using a CMU like that would probably be better :)
The CMU is also somewhat of a legend in test equipment. There is (was) one on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich :)
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Bicurico on September 07, 2023, 03:19:13 pm ---For you to get an idea: I once visited a customer that had a container outdoors (but within their company grounds), full with R&S Audio Analysers. I asked about them and was told they were to be scraped. So I asked if I could have one. I was told no, because there was a contract in place where every single unit had to be scarped with the respective paperwork confirming so.
I was told (after asking why and thinking that each device would render around 1000 Euro on Ebay) that this was part of the purchase contract and, additionally, to prevent workers to steal components of the units in use for spare parts of the scraped ones. Another reason is to prevent competition to get hold of cheap equipment. There were further plausible reasons.
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I can't speak to that specific case, but it's quite possible the "purchase contract" they were referring to was with a competitor (of R&S) that was offering a trade in discount. In some cases "trade-ins" are simply scrapped (*sob*) after being received by the company offering the trade-in, so providing proof that the units were scrapped locally may have been sufficient to obtain the discount.
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