[time-nuts] R&S XSRM Rubidium Standard

[Clint Jay]

Experience has shown me that you can reasonably purchase good, working test
equipment that's well within calibration tolerances if you are buying the
more 'common' equipment, 6.5 digit meters, frequency counters, even a
Stanford SR620...

I've been very lucky with those, two spectrum analysers and various other
bits of test gear I'd never have been able to afford any other way, saving
thousands over what even tatty examples from equipment brokers would have
cost.

Yes, you can get bitten and buy a complete POS but you can also take
sensible precautions and get bargains.

On 14 Sep 2017 18:01, "Scott McGrath" <scmcgrath at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <danrae at verizon.net> 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
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