A Spec An and sweeper and an external 3dB hybrid to act as reflectometer enable such a wealth of measurements that I’d be lost without the tracking gen. Surely it can only be lack of demonstrations showing people what can be done with this combination that is the answer to your question.

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People will have read my comments about calibrating the 8920A. For something robust enough to survive in the boot (sorry – trunk) it is always with me at ham radio events and at the gliding club where I get to test and repair many things such as UHF ground radios, VHF airiband radios, aircraft 866MHz FLARM systems. Oh, and the remote Davis Vantage Vue weather station – we have it operating at 2km range with >99% uptime. The 8920 is the goto instrument and always has the hybrid hanging off the front for measuring all of these types of antenna. No sweeper? – non starter. Shame it stops at 1GHz.

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Rgds

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Colin

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Hi all

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During the last year on a number of sites I have seen several requests for people buying their fist spectrum analyser and all have spoken about wanting a tracking generator

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I personally have only used an analyser with a tracking generator a few times in my life and that was 35 years ago a Marconi 110 Mhz spectrum analyser for setting up IF ?filters

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In my early days I started using swappers and diode detectors or power meters with an oscilloscope then moved onto Scaler analysers

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Could it be the new people are not familiar with other test equipment and think a spectrum analyser is the only tool they require and unaware of sweepers and Scalier analysers

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Your comments please ??Regards Paul

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