Re: anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
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The best microwave counters in my view are EIP 545 or 548 series , they are nice counters and you can get them reasonable priced , EIP used a YIG filter on the microwave input which protects the sampler
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Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 4:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
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I've encountered a fair number of Autohet(Racal-Dana) microwave counters at hamfests and e-fleas for under $100. They're rack mount affairs, so not as convenient a form factor as your counter.? The more modern Racal-Dana 2101 is similar
in specs and form factor to your 5342A, so that might be worth considering. It does have a congenital design weakness, though -- the pushbuttons are crap. Replacing them is straightforward and cheap, but tedious.
If your needs would be satisfied with a top end of 14GHz or so (mine makes it to 16GHz, albeit with degraded sensitivity), you can build a divide-by-eight prescaler fairly easily, using the Hittite (now ADI) HMC363. They also have (or had) an eval board, if
you prefer pre-made over DIY. Couple that with a dirt-cheap 2GHz counter, and you'd be good to go.
--Cheers
Tom
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Prof. Thomas H. Lee
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Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4070
On 5/25/2022 14:31, Samudra wrote:
Hi again, I am installing my HP 5342a counter, which is working, but it never came with GPIB i/f. I see the manual specifies option 001, with P/N?05342-60019 HP/IB Assy and P/N 05342-60029 HP/IP Input Assy.
Not wanting to spend more money into this beast (that much), are these parts unobtanium? I'm just wanting to automate certain set of measurements I plan to do. It's not do or die, just will take time to do them that's for sure.?
What's a reasonable, ham-friendly counter that does the same thing as the HP5432a nowadays? I have seen many smaller counters up to 2 Ghz within reach .. but 18 GHz??
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