The scope

I was holding off posting this until I got confirmation that it would be shipping. I got confirmation on new year's eve -- a tracking number was generated with UPS. Of course since UPS was on holiday on the 31st and new year's day it wasn't actually shipped.Enough of the small talk.I was holding off because this was a refurbished unit that Tek said they had. From talking to the sales rep at Valuetronics he was saying that just because it shows up in the system doesn't mean it's really there. But, in my case, it was there.The nice thing about refurb units like this is that they're a lot cheaper (ok, still expensive) but it comes fully cal-ed and everything and has a new warrantee.So, the brass tacks of this scope: I got the 100MHz unit that's the base model that has a 100MHz spectrum analyzer. The cool thing is I can easily hack this to bring it up to a 500MHz unit with the unlocked 3GHz spectrum analyzer, 50 MHz arbitrary waveform generator and 16-channel logic analyzer.  :-)  Yep, the base model ships with a full 500MHz front-end. Neat. (I can unlock to 1GHz, but I'm sure I'll be a few dB down from what it's really specced for)I figure this is a 10 to 20-year investment. Between ham radio and other electronics tasks I think I'll be able to get some really good use out of it. I'm thinking I should have it in my hands either Wednesday or Thursday next week.Toys!  :-D