I decided to try a Rigol. It arrived today.

This thing is crazy! Moving from the Hitachi to this is like going from a crank telephone to a smartphone. I am inundated with information I don't even know how to use yet. This is so much better than just squares and a trace. I can't even guess what a high-end scope is like.

It gave me motivation to get into Arduino. I found a series of tutorial exercises published by Tektronix, and they require using an Arduino board as a signal generator. I had to edit the sketches to make them work, but it's running.

I hear Rigols have really nice help function that will explain/teach you.

 

That would explain why the manual is nearly useless.

I learned a ton of stuff today. I'll get back to the learning-curve grind tomorrow.