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Old 01-04-2021, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut View Post
Note that later and more expensive scopes may have built in measurement cursors to get a more precise measurement of time/frequency than just eye-balling the display, but eventually these have to be calibrated against a standard frequency source.

Really modern scopes are all digital sampling types, and the sampling rate is crystal controlled, so the scope really contains a calibrated reference.
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining that to me.
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