Cb test equipment

You would want a decent watt meter with a peak envelope power setting.
A good lab grade freq counter.
A 50mhz or 100mhz scope.
A signal generator that will do up to 30mhz at least and able to add a 1000hz tone. Also they have an app for that too.
A good digital volt ohm meter.
An old vacuum tube volt meter.

I picked up an old Sencore CB-42 test station on eBay and had a good tech refurbish and calibrate it. He changed caps out too.
Everything I listed can be bought cheap on eBay. If you have just what I listed, you will have more equipment than 99% of the cb hack shops out there.

Disclaimer:
I'm not a tech, but I keep the good ones busy..

 

oscilloscopes is interesting to me but so expensive. I looked for a used one but they are hard to find and someone like me I really don't know what I'm looking for being that I'm new at it.

Good intelligent topic for discussion. Thanks

 

Just do a search on eBay for 50mhz oscilloscope. Tons of them on there every day.

 

You guys, the first thing to get for any test equipment is a book of basic electronics.

Delta, read your list again, a vtvm may need work to get it accurate.

6 scopes are cheap, bet you spend more on a night out with your better half than you would with a scope.

 

This should give you an idea of what test equipment is needed, and how to hook it up.

 

You don’t necessarily have to buy all the equipment shown above. you can buy a unit that has some of it built in. Like a B&K 1040 as an example.

 

Guess what guys, you are putting the cart before the horse.

Lets start with a book on basic electronics and then a good dummy load and a good watt meter. YOU don't need a scope, you don't need a spectrum analyzer, you don't need all that other crap, you need to learn the basics and build from there.

 

That is definetly true. But I figure since they really wanted to know what it takes to work on a radio, I would at least give them an idea of what they will need equipment wise.

 

I'm not too good with component level diagnostics yet, but I pretty much have alignment figured out.