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Originally Posted by Notimetolooz
OK, something very important here. You want to get something that you can find service data on. Units like the Elenco that you can find nothing about (except if they have a manual with them that has the service data) are not a good choice. If something goes wrong with them, no one is going to be able to help. That was a good thing about the Heathkit.
The Heathkit counter would be a good companion piece to the SG-8. The SG-8 upper band (E) doesn't work well on my unit. The amplitude is very low if it works at all. The next lower band ends at 25 MHz which matches that counter. Unless you are sure you need more frequency range, that would do.
The HP is gone now. You don't have a lot of time with ebay to decide.
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I got the Heathkit Signal Generator today and it looks like its not going to need a lot of work done to it, in fact it looks like it was hardly ever used, it does have modern film caps and modern electrolytics in it which makes me think that it may have been recapped already.
pictures below are of the inside of the unit.
You'll see how clean it is inside and you'll see what I mean by having modern components inside.