Lots of Advantest spectrum analyzers out there. Many with great
performance, some at good prices. Few/none with schematics. Do you feel
lucky?
-- john, KE5FX
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From: hp_agilent_equipment@...
[mailto:hp_agilent_equipment@...] On Behalf Of Doug
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 11:30 PM
To: hp_agilent_equipment@...
Cc: Jeff Miller
Subject: Re: [hp_agilent_equipment] Re: Spectrum Analyzer
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
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