Cant afford an oscilloscope

[TinselKoala]

Here :

http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/weedfreq.htm

M.

Darn, I wish I had known about that before I bought this Fluke counter for 125 bux. The Fluke is nice, a professional instrument, but it has "issues" which is why I got it cheap. But for the work I normally do the above kit would have been better, it looks like.
I recently scored a nice Atek nixie tube counter for really cheap, it needed one 50 cent germanium transistor replaced and now it's working fine.
(The nixie counter in the photo is a GenRad 1191, a true classic.)

I always use a counter in conjunction with my analog scopes; it's a lot more accurate (and easier) than squinting at the screen and doing math. And I never understood why more old FGs didn't automatically include more precise frequency readouts. I guess the instrument designers were of the "component stereos are better" persuasion, mostly.
Suits me, but it is getting crowded in my kitchen.
Still, this is less than 500 bux worth of boat-anchors.