I got this one for a F-Gen..
It goes down to a 500uhz for pulses and down to 1 uhz for some other things..
The USB thingy also works good for doing some A-WAVES and then loading it into the unit..
I got a much better price on it than what it's being offered now, guess I was lucky.
The only thing I don't like about is the screen likes shut down on me when I would like it to stay on.. Might be an option for that, I haven't looked deep enough.
Feel lucky, I understand Fluke was moving its assembly process to China, if they haven't already. No more US made devices.. But you can bet your ass they'll keep a distribution center in the USA and attempt to get filthy rich off of us as they keep promoting their USA quality.. or used to be quality...
The chinese can make things just as well as any one else these days how ever, companies like Fluke start off by having places like China match the pre-existing quality of the device to soon start drowning in their profits to then, allow the Chinese to start using some of their tactics on these devices for cheaper production just so the CEO at Fluke can get that bigger bonus.. This is when people like Fluke will be no more and Chinese companies will then produce the desired quality that all of us are always looking for but at a higher price than what you were previously paying and this money all goes out of the country..
Guess Obumma will need to print some more funny money to support this..
Government stupidity encourages "bypass surgery" like that...
...sounds "OK" to me...
Don't know if it will meet your requirements, but there's a calibrated
5385A on Ebay right now for $485. 1GHz; and the TCXO is standard on those.
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Thanks Jamie, We bought this thing from Protek,
George H.
I have a gut feeling that won't work. What might work is registering a company in another state (or country) and rent your 'own' equipment from that company.
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Ahhh... this (outsourcing and its consequences to quality and perhaps jobs) is capitalism at its finest, isn't it?
Assuming you don't want the Federales to "fix" the problem, what would you do? How might things be changed to improve the situation?
Free trade is, essentially, foreign aid from the developed world to the have-nots. In that sense, it's probably morally correct. It's unfortunate that the Chinese elites aren't allowing it to work better; if they did, all parties (except themselves maybe) would be better off.
John
Anybody who enjoys Oklahoma should move there. I've spent time in Oklahoma, and it seems like California is more fun.
John
I have seen prescaler clones on ebay for that model, for couple hundred USD IIRC.
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As long as they're not in San Francisco they'd avoid SF's equipment tax.
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When you can ship stuff halfway around the globe, deal with all those inefficiencies, and get it built and shipped back for less than what it costs to hire locals (with all the regulations and costs that entails), then that's what you start doing.
Saves you paying 1% a year B.S. tax on your equipment, for example.
No one wants to do all that--it's sooo much easier to work at home. At least it should be, that is.
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It's going to take a while to build enough freeways to make that place feel like "home".
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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How many of them will be descendants of Okies?
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Not to mention the gay bars and cafes and tattoo parlors.
John
It's too bad that the AMERICAN elites aren't allowing it to work better.
Thanks, Rich
That's the craziest thing I ever heard! Why would anybody do business in SF? What kind of equipment are you talking about? Restaurant equipment, machine tools, etc. (ie., ALL equipment) or just "electronic"?
I love the food there, but jeez the politics are just idiotic!
Consider coming out here to the new Livermore tech park, I think its in conjunction with LLNL and/or Sandia. Our director talks about it frequently.
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A few years back, the village of Essex Junction, VT, (home of IBM's Microelectronics Division) had an inventory tax, due on all inventory on Jan. 1 (IIRC). IBM could have moved their inventory across the river (they own the bridge, where they also have a plant for a day. Instead they told the village that they'd just move if the tax weren't repealed. It took a couple of years to wean the village off it, but it was either that or nothing, permanently. Amazingly, they did the right thing.
All equipment.
Absolutely. It's an insane place to do business.
The upsides:
It's fun.
The food is good.
Good access to the airport.
Lots of trade shows, here and down the peninsula.
We get tons of attention from sales reps and even principals. We are regularly visited by folks from Linear Tech, TI, Analog Devices, the smaller players, and the trade mags. When we have a problem, we have direct pipelines into people with clout. Customers like to come here, too. We have one big deal in the works with a German company. We met one of the founders at an optics trade show at Moscone, invited him to visit our place, and he was impressed. That sort of advantage is hard to quantify, but it's very real.
Our facility is probably a good real estate investment. That may wind up being our biggest long-term asset. Maybe all this electronics is just a front for property investing.
Fortunately, California eliminated the inventory tax, which would have been a bigger hit than the city's silly tax on equipment. The biggie of course is the state property tax, about 1.2% of purchase price, which would overwhelm inventory or equipment taxes.
Our cost of real estate is relatively small, under $1/month per square foot. There are advantages to being in the city, and it would be horribly disruptive to move. And our place has character, unlike the tilt-up industrial parks.
You won't find much like this in Livermore:
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Besides, money doesn't really matter.
John
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