Its an unrealistic expectation that equipment from the well known auction site will work and be 'in-cal'
Its realistic to anticipate several the purchase cost to get well priced instruments back 'in-cal'. But hey if i spend 2 k on a sweeper 3 k to fix and cal it and BlahTest is charging 10k for a ready to go unit im Still 5 k ahead of the game Content by Scott Typos by Siri > On Sep 12, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Dan Rae <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9/12/2017 5:58 AM, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts wrote: >> A friend of mine has bought a just out of calibration R & S XSRM Rubidium >> standard from one of the so called "recyclers" on Ebay. > Nigel / David, > > Sorry to hear of your "bargain". However I doubt very much that the lamp > was made by R&S themselves, like with the Racal 9475 unit it was probably > sourced either as a module or as parts from someone like Efratom and one of > those lamps will be found to fit. I'm not in a position to help much at > present (just coming out of Chemo). My Racal which was in a similar or worse > state when I got that, now comes to life when needed. > > Cheers, > Dan > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
