Scope buying advice

[DCMagnuson at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/6/99 4:57:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
space_banana at hotmail.com writes:

>   I got a scope. an old 20Mhz vavle scope 'with storage (ok it just 
>  flouresses teh screen so the picture doesnt fade :-) )'... It smain use is 
>  to see waveforms... thats it...
>    My meter has a fequency counter, its only been used as such once (when I 
>  couldn't find my scope leads, just to see it something oscilated).

Wow, and I thought I was the only one with a rather ratty old scope!!!  I've 
got an old Heathkit valve scope.  20Mhz, almost no options, but it's still 
rather useful.   Not very good to get a precision measurement, or for looking 
at transients, though.  Still, I got it for free and it lasted me quite a few 
years....

Unfortuantely, it needs to be recapped (starting to get 60Hz ripple on the 
waveform, even when the positive scope lead is grounded).  I'll probably 
replace it instead of recapping it.  I can get some modular Teks for $200 USD 
down at a local surplus store (I forget the model #, but it's the same scope 
we had for our EE lab here at the state college.

Dave Magnuson
Independent Music Site
http://IndieMusicSite.com