Keysight awards Carlos a new $75,000 scope because of EEVblog support !!!! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 06:31:00 pm
content: See this threadhttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/contests/keysight-6000x-6ghz-voting-is-live-vote-for-carlos-a/?topicseenBecause of the support of EEVBlog, Keysight awarded Carlos a new scope even though he came in 3rd.Since this is a $75,000 prize, I think a big hand goes to EEVBlog and KeysightAmazing

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 06:49:22 pm
content: Good for Carlos, and well done with the contest as well. Got the Keysight brand name out to a larger audience as well, and in a good way as well.

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 07:04:42 pm
content: Quote from: blueskull on April 20, 2016, 06:53:00 pmThat is right - I remember he said that. Oh boy another contest comingStill waiting for a chicken shit drawing (someone else came up with this idea)Maybe Carlos can use a robot to do the drawing. At least use one to chase the chickensHere are two random numbers if Carlos wants to use Dave's list (I have not seen it)68496Here is another method - pick the person who posted the most posts stating that they voted.or pick the one with the most posts under that thread.(not me in either case)

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 07:06:32 pm
content: Will be an end to this giveaway madness?

author: rrinker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 07:19:03 pm
content: Hopefully, never!AWESOME news, great for Carlos and his business, and awesome that Keysight stepped up and did this. Proof that even today, not all corporations are just giant faceless entities that don't give a plug nickel about their customers. Great job all around.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 07:20:47 pm
content: Way to go carlos

author: CustomEngineerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 07:37:25 pm
content: Really awesome. I don't know Carlos but was really hoping to see him win one of the scopes (actually signed into my wife's Facebook to vote). Was a little sad the last couple of days of the Test to Impress contest as the other 2 people started pulling away. Congrats Carlos, know you will get good use out of the scope.And many thanks to Keysight. The contests have all been fun to watch/participate in.

author: janoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2016, 08:59:54 pm
content: Awesome, well done Keysight and congrats Carlos

author: cncjerry
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 22, 2016, 03:58:44 am
content: I was wondering if Carlos has to pay taxes on that scope. It will take all the fun out of it.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2016, 04:36:23 am
content: Quote from: cncjerry on April 22, 2016, 03:58:44 amHe already is willing to pay though, but as it likely is a promotional item he will not have to pay at all, as the marketing dept does it for him. Otherwise it might be tagged as a long term loan, so after 5 years he can simply buy it at current asset value of $1.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2016, 06:31:02 am
content: That's great news. Congratulations, Carlos! Kudos to Keysight.

author: rickv14623
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 22, 2016, 03:23:32 pm
content: Congrats to you Carlos!

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 04:40:21 am
content: Quote from: ez24 on April 20, 2016, 06:31:00 pmVoting doesn't matter, it's the super delegates that count. Next challenge is to keep away the tax collectors.Good job Carlos!

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 05:36:21 am
content: I just saw this thread and figured it appropriate to join in.Thank you to the EEVBlog. Daniel from Keysight made it quite clear the rally here was the deciding factor. The support and associated discussions obviously made a serious impact on the team. I am guessing that the decision to triple up on the giveaway was not a small one. I owe huge thanks you's to all that made it happen this way. What a wild and weird ride that somehow ended with a completely ridiculously amazing instrument headed to my bench.It is true that the scope is not a prize, but a gift. I had the tax all worked out but now I don't have to exercise that plan. As far as I know the offer is the scope with all available options which comes with a set of passive probes. Any additional probes are on me to buy. It may take a bit to get them but I will be purchasing the probes that will be needed for high-speed work as well as the power rail probe and a pair of current probes to deal with the power measurements. Not sure yet what the final value is. The tax savings make it far easier to work out the needed probes.As I said in the video - this is a step up for me and there will be a substantial learning curve. Not just the scope, but the learning curve on the electronics I am planning to design. When signals get into the multiples of Ghz, a whole new set of skills will be needed to succeed. I have read a lot about high-speed design, but have no practical experience. Some late nights and tears should be expected as I learn some hard lessons. With that in mind, hard lessons is exactly what I wanted. I want to push far beyond my current skills and even beyond what I am planning to learn. How long will that take me? Who knows. I tend to go at it harder than than rock-n-roll, so hopefully some good progress will result.Step 1: Receive the unitStep 2: Learn the fundamentals so I can do my daily bill-paying workStep 3: Dive head first into the juicy features that I have never had access toStep 4: Repeat step 3 in an endless loop until I can apply those features to real world design effortsThis will no doubt be a long and fun journey and I have this amazing forum community to thank for that. I will never take that for granted.

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 07:33:28 am
content: You're in for a world of new experiences... hopefully enjoyable onesIf you've not already read it, this app note gives a lot of useful background information that'll become relevant when you start probing high speed signals. Apologies that it's produced by a rival scope manufacturerhttp://circuitslab.case.edu/manuals/Probe_Fundamentals-_Tektronix.pdfYou'll also probably want to start researching, and drooling over, some active probes very soon. The scope alone isn't a useful, complete solution above a few hundred MHz...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 09:07:04 am
content: Quote from: rx8pilot on April 23, 2016, 05:36:21 amDid the top 3 all get a scope?

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 09:09:30 am
content: Yes.Daniel posted that David was being given a scope as well, but he didn't mention which model. At a guess, I reckon it would probably be another 6000 X-series.Here:Quote from: Keysight_DanielBogdanoff on April 22, 2016, 05:10:39 pm

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 10:38:51 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on April 23, 2016, 09:07:04 amIt seems so but I don't know what David K. got. Daniel B. didn't specify that.

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 11:27:04 pm
content: Quote from: AndyC_772 on April 23, 2016, 07:33:28 amNo kidding. The probes will be needed as soon as I am able to afford them. I have a few power projects to complete first and I can get through those with passive probes no problem. Hopefully that will be enough to get me into probes that match the 6Ghz front end. Until then - I essentially have a roughly 500Mhz limit.The cost of the good probes is breathtaking.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 23, 2016, 11:40:27 pm
content: Quote from: rx8pilot on April 23, 2016, 11:27:04 pmNot really. You can DIY 1GHz probes very easely. Tektronix P6456 probes (passive Lo-Z probes) turn up on Ebay regulary. And there is always the possibility include a passive divider probe into your design and use an SMA cable to connect to the scope. The latter is probably the best solution because it will provide a way higher quality signal into the oscilloscope than you can ever get from a probe.