A busy couple of weeks, with some good bits, some interesting bits, some disappointing bits, some irks, and a bloody annoyance.
The bloody annoyance was my mother's flat roof has started to leak. She retired to a
4 storey house 25 years ago. Now that's going to be an interesting bodge.
The interesting bits related to my leopard and gharial. Took one to be repaired on the way from back from picking up some equipment; found I probably ought to insure them.
The disappointing bit was an HP Modulation Domain Analyser: useless, destined for the tip. Fortunately it looks like the 10MHz OCXO still works, and the fleabay price is about what I paid, so not much of a financial loss. Is there anything else worth salvaging, e.g. a few coax cables?
The good bits were the other equipment works: a 100MHz reciprocal frequency counter, a TDR (if you fiddle the LCD), and a strange HP7562 ac/dc log voltmeter/converter. There's bugger all info about that available on the web, and the observant will notice that it has an input
and an output.
Today I picked up an hp8562b 22GHz spectrum analyser for £350, sight unseen, then toddled across the country to pick it up from the auction house (it had to be picked up today or Monday, and on Monday I'm in another country. The irksome bit was that when picking it up I chatted to someone who had bought an Anritsu portable spectrum analyser, and he said it had been a bankruptcy sale. If I'd known that, I'd have bid on some other items, grrr.
The good news is that the hp8562b works
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