Re: anyone have broken HP 5342a counter GPIB/HPIB i/f or know of equivalents
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Hi,
It's not at all unobtanium. In fact, I have purchased an option 011 (it is the HPIB, 001 is the OCXO) some time ago on eBay. It consists of the HPIB board that plugs into the backplane and the HPIB connector that goes to the back of the instrument. It wasn't very expensive, I guess there is not much demand, but there are not that many for sale. However, you can watch for cheap faulty 5342a's mostly with blown front-end that has hpib and use that.
Szabolcs
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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