Jose ,
You can use it with your 8566a, I use it with my 8568A. It will only work for the low band for you but it is still useful. Its not good for RBW<10kHz but ok. You might try replacing the free running 500MHz oscillator with a crystal locked one for smaller RBWs.
Tim
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Hi Howard,
I reply on-list because of this comment:
... The HP8444a tracking generator is less common Option 59 that
works with
the 8568b...
This seemed extremely interesting to me, as I have a (I guess) less
common 8444A with Option 058 (yes, it is not a typo; difference sems
to be it only goes to 1.3GHz) so perhaps I could use it with the
8566A... but I guess you wanted to write 8558, right?
Best regards,
JOSE
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