Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Lothar,
I hate to be stubborn or dense, but where does the marker come from if the
"RF is dead on the tracking generator"?
I do have an operation and maintenance manual. I quote from the
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David C. Hallam <dhallam@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Isn't that what the 86222 sweeper plugin with the marker option does? Those
are pretty common.
-- john, KE5FX
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John Miles <jmiles@...>
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#9104
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
they actually made several options on the 8444A, one incorporated another fixed frequency oscillator, this option was created for people using the 8444 with the 8558B which only had the first LO
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
this is another way but i havent seen anyone using this in centuries, the last time i saw it was on a old jerrold sweeper, everything i had ever since was using the approach i described, problem with
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Lets go back to the basics,
A spectrum analyzer basically is a swept receiver, in the case of the 8553 you have three conversion steps to reduce the input signal to 3MHz IF, the first LO normally is
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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#9101
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
lothar baier wrote:
There is another way. You sample the RF, mix it with a (frequency settable) oscillator, run the output through a LPF, detector, and comparator and use this output for intensity
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J Forster <jfor@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Hi Thanks Lothar....that is the unit I use most often and have never had to
"take the lid off" (should have looked at the manuals which are out of easy
reach before typing !!)I have certainly had
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Alan Melia
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
ok for the counter to be able to count the marker frequency it will have to stop the sweep for a short time count the frequency and then keep on sweeping
What im trying to get across is that you
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Hi,
The marker blip, when using an 8443A with the 141T, is simply the
trace stopping for the blinking of an eye. The marker intensity
control just varies how long it stops for - there is no 'Z'
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Joe McElvenney
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
you are talking about the 8444 not the 8443, the 8443 actually does not require a 500MHz signal
Alan Melia <Alan.Melia@...> wrote: Hi, just a though triggered by Chuck's posting.
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Now I am getting confused.
The spectrum analyzer screen has a line designated CENTER FREQUENCY. As you
turn the frequency knob on the 8553B RF section to move a signal peak to
coincide with this
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David C. Hallam <dhallam@...>
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
Hi, just a though triggered by Chuck's posting. Some of the connectors for
the tracking gen were fitted as an "update" I think (without looking at my
frame) there is another cable inside from the back
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Alan Melia
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
ok there are two basic ways to create a marker in a swept system, one is called RF blanking the other one is called intensity modulation, ok usually you have a control voltage thats proportional to
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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#9093
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
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David C. Hallam <dhallam@...>
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#9092
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
One very big problem with the 141T frame and its plug-ins, that can cause
many a vexing symptom, is the D style connector on the back of each plug-in.
The aluminum framework that holds these D style
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Chuck Harris
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Re: 3575A - useful ?
At 06:06 AM 11/16/2007, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Day" <<mailto:johnday%40wordsnimages.com>johnday@...>
>To:
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John Day <johnday@...>
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#9090
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Re: opertunity to have uWaveEngineer1968 test his gear hobber - 8640B for $1
Ah ha, OK I get it, I guess no reading comprehension score for me that day :)
I gues it's still a fair enough deal. I wish I could get a good deal on two
8640Bs, then I could keep one, send you
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Kuba Ober
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Re: HP-8443A Tracking Generator Problems
have you ever considered a 5345A ? they are cheap, and they go to 500MHz
The marker does not really say anything, most of the time markers are blanked in on the sweep trace not on the RF level,
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lothar baier <microwaveengineer1968@...>
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#9088
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Re: opertunity to have uWaveEngineer1968 test his gear hobber - 8640B for $1
It better not :) You want to get your epoxy gears out of the RTV mold, right?
Cheers, Kuba
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Kuba Ober
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HP 6220B Schematic
Anyone have a schematic for the HP 6220B power supply? Mine's working,
but the meter is off. It even reads negative at very low voltages. I've
compensated somewhat with the mechanical meter zero
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Brian Beezley <bb@...>
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#9086
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