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

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Original poster: "Ralph Zekelman" <gridleak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Paul,

All that solder / rosin smoke makes us hams a pretty friendly bunch. I
suggest
you contact some of the local hams for info re nearby hamfests. Old
but working Heathkit and Eico scopes can be found for five bucks.
Twenty-five
bucks can get you a Tektronix scope that sold new for kilobucks. You
gotta
make the contacts. Good luck.

Ralph Zekelman




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

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From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!

 > 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
 > --
 >
 >
 > > 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!
 > > Resent-From: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
 > > Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:06:12 -0600 (MDT)
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