On 01/18/2013 10:07 PM, Jeff Miller wrote:
Just curious,
What do you think of the Advantest SA vs HP or Tektronix brands?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff M.
I am now retired for almost 10 years, but at my place we had about 4 or 5
Advantest SAs. They worked very well, and are relatively small. One thing I
noticed is that the CRT would go dim a little sooner than that of some other
CRT-using devices. (As usual in r&d labs, the equipment was never turned
off, day and nite, day in and day out.) For normal use in a home lab, I
would
not expect that to be a problem. Maybe the newer ones have LCD displays,
and then you would not have to worry about that.
I would think if anyone is buying a new SA, or even a used one, a tracking
generator is a huge improvement on the capabilities of the SA, so spend the
extra money. This obviously applies to any make that offers the capability.
--doug, WA2SAY, retired RF engineer
