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Re: Recommendation for an "up to 1GHz" generator + sweeper
If component level data is available, look at the diagram and parts list to determine the type of DC protection. Cheers! Bruce Quoting Radu Bogdan Dicher <vondicher@...>:
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Bruce
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Re: Recommendation for an "up to 1GHz" generator + sweeper
I guess my question would be why you want sweep to begin with ? If you want to measure filters than sweeping is only half the rent, you still need some way to display your response in a dB linear
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: Recommendation for an "up to 1GHz" generator + sweeper
Honestly, probably worth its separate topic is how many of these units have AC and/or DC protection on their output. DC - far more important in my book. In a hobby environment of experimenting and
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Radu Bogdan Dicher
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Re: Recommendation for an "up to 1GHz" generator + sweeper
Ruben, You're right, there's just two sweepers on that list, which complies with my original requirements. But I decided to keep the list a bit "looser" than how I started it; besides, there's just
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Radu Bogdan Dicher
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
They usually do; people have to learn somehow. But who do you think is writing that example code? Adafruit and SparkFun are staffed by far younger people than you and I. It's not all gloom and doom.
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Dave McGuire
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
So you are telling me that the modules sold by adafruit or any of the other stores don¡¯t come with any example code and integration examples because I sincerely doubt this
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
I am not trying to be dismissive or negative just stating observations , as far as driving kids away I got a 5 year old grand daughter that just learned how to solder a DB9 connector for a wiring
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
ABSOLUTELY DISAGREE - Different yes - less challenging or technical NO. Natively the module knows little except a protocol at sole level. DOING something with that basic functionality is the
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Bruce
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
If it comes to DSP or SDR one line of code wont get you too far ? SDR is a amazing field and you can do a lot of things which is why the technology has been found its way into both military and
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
I agree, but that's not all they're doing. Don't be so dismissive; the only thing that will accomplish is make you bitter and drive the kids away from their interests. -Dave
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Buying a Bluetooth or zigbee module and tacking it on a mcu module is not the same as designing a circuit all the way to the circuit board and then building and testing it just saying
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Absolutely agree with Dave - how any of the buiders canwrite a line of code, that might just replace a piece of hardware or make it easier to use ?? Quoting Lothar baier <Lothar@...>:
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Bruce
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
...and Bluetooth and Zigbee and LoRa...They certainly ARE doing RF, just mostly not the same RF that you did. And that is ok! True, all true. But to assert that it's somehow not an area of interest
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Test Downtime Costing You Money?
As I said before its marketing material nothing more nothing less ¡.. Most companies bitch about the cost of downtime but at the same time managers frown on buying or holding backup equipment just
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
They might be building stuff but nothing that has to do with RF , maybe microcontrollers robots and drones .... As far as HAM RADIO goes ( and I am a HAM btw ) 'giving them out " is about correct
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Re: Test Downtime Costing You Money?
wrote: Obviously losses due to downtime are going to be higher with larger companies, To me, the number is meaningless. What meaning can you attach to what Keysight wrote? I expect lives have been
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
No, the kids aren't buying microwave parts at hamfests. This is what I was meant when I said "it is DIFFERENT now". They are buying parts from Adafruit, SparkFun, and Amazon, and hundreds of other
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Dave McGuire
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Re: BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Dave with all due respect , I been selling microwave parts at local hamfests for over 10 years so I know the crowd that builds stuff , license statistics mean nothing , there might be more hams than
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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BS, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
Wrong. Electronics as a hobby is far, far larger than it has ever been an ANY time in the past. You're apparently not looking in the right places. It is DIFFERENT now, and that's ok. Kids aren't
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Spread the word -- Swap Meet Returns!
They do, and they have grown significantly in size. They had to move to a bigger place last year. -- Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR kyrrin@... "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green)
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