Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!

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Original poster: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Paul: I live in a slowly dying town known as Las Vegas founded over 400
years ago before the english founders formed the US.  Not Las vegas NV
founded by the Mormon chirch and built by Howard Hughs. All industry has
long left this town so there are no Ham Fests near here. I found a fine 2
channel scope with 10 Mhz band width at Good will for $3 . I get Multimeters
at Harbor freight for $5 They work well and I dont cry when I smoke one.
 I went out on a limb  and bought a fine HP tube signal generator for 20$ 0n
Ebay .Tubes are hard to get, but it puts out 20v  3W signal which makes
finding a coils resonant frequency easy . it is superior for TC work to
those low voltage transistor units. When I go To the VA hospital in
Albuqurque I go to the war surplus and get copper wire for around  5$ for 10
lbs. There are places to find things if you keep looking very hard. I am
looking for some old plans to convert a TV into a low frequency multi scan
scope. That was done 30 years ago, but I can not find those plans any more.
 Such a scope would be superior to analyze single event long duration events
like we have in TC work. Just point your Browny camera at the screen, fire
the coil and you have every signal recordrd on film over a long time.
     Robert    H
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> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:12:20 -0600
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!
> Resent-From: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:13:40 -0600 (MDT)
>
> Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Robert,
> I'm well aware of the limitations of trying to enjoy this hobby on Soc Sec,
> since that is what I live on. My wife won't let me spend any of "her" money
> on my "exorbitantly expensive ridiculous hobby!" She did, however, buy me a
> digital multimeter with a transistor check function, frequency counter, and
> 20 A DC capacity. I thought that was awfully nice of her. It sure comes in
> handy. I'm just jealous, that's all. I sure would like to have an
> oscilloscope! Anybody know how I can locate one cheap? I think I'll check
> out E-Bay. I recently got burned badly on E-Bay and I'm now a little leery
> of buying there. How do you go about finding local hamfests? I know there
> are a lot of ham guys around here but I don't know any of them personally.
> Thanks for any help. Regards.
> Paul Brodie
> Think Positive
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!
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>> Original poster: robert heidlebaugh <rheidlebaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Paul: Some members do indead have deap pockets, The majority do not. Some
>> like my self play with tesla on social security with only time to 
invest. We
>> taks coils of wire from wash machines that fail and scraps of pipe from
>> construction projects. No we do not run out and buy what we nead and it
>> takes us years to compleat each project, but we enjoy what we can do as 
much
>> as the deap pockets people do , maybe more.
>> Robert   H
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>>> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:05:59 -0600
>>> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!
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