This Wavetek 30 Mhz function-generator is a very nice instrument; with many very useful features and functions besides just sine and triangle waves.

In the first place, it's also a Sweep generator too.  You can sweep a 1000:1 range of frequency easily; with all sorts of sweep setups; including smooth, stepped, pulsed, gated, burst-sweeps, etc. etc.. 

It's great for RF work, like sweeping RF/IF filters.  Add a reflection-bridge, and you can even sweep HF antennas for return-loss, tuning, and swept SWR measurements!

In the second place, this 164 can also be used as a Pulse Generator; and with variable-transition times too!  I found it very useful for designing Switching Power Supplies; where I needed to choose an edge-rate for the Power-FET gate-drive that would optimize the balance between switching-losses and RFI generation (pics below).

As you can see in the pictures, this unit is in great shape....front-panel is very good...knobs are great.....no cracks or missing knob-caps....everything is straight and ship-shape.

I powered it up and it produced output; as shown in the pics.  The first pic shows it putting out a clean sine-wave at its rated 30 Mhz (scope shows the 33ns time-measurement).

I also set it to Pulse mode to show you the Variable-Transition feature mentioned above.  The first pic shows a typical 25khz FET gate-drive signal with the edges set to a pretty fast rate.....the 2nd pic shows the same signal but with the edge-rate adjusted to a much longer transition.

Note:  the sweep-section controls were acting 'noisy'.....the sweep was going on and off as I was adjusting those controls.  So it would be smart to plan on spending a rainy afternoon going through the entire checkout/calibration procedure from start to finish....and cleaning each control and switch as you go along.

Wavetek 164, 30 Mhz Sweep/Function Generator, just $149.00 as-shown, as-is

Price includes free Priority Mail or UPS-ground to anywhere in CONUS !

To make it a "done deal", email me at: "metal at fullwave dawt com"

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Payment:  Cash, Check, or Paypal; email me for details to make payment

Shipping:  Priority-Mail in CONUS included in price...and no BS extra fees for 'packing' or 'handling'.

Response Time:  We live in the mountains now, and my wife gets into town a couple times a week for mail and groceries (I don't drive much any more, since my vision is failing).  Expect about a week between receipt/clearing of your payment and when the carefully-packed instrument is dropped off at the UPS terminal or Post Office in Medford, Oregon.

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