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- The model number
- The function(s) listed below. Some instruments have multiple functions - for example, the 4195A is a VNA, spectrum analyzer and an impedance analyzer. Therefore the 4195A is listed in multiple categories
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- Accessory kits - various types
- AC power analyzers - PA2201A and PA2203A
- AC power supplies 6811C, 6812C, 6813C
- Airlines
- Arbitrary waveform generators M8194A
- Amplifiers?493A, 495A?
- Attenuators (optical) 8156A, 8157A, 8158B, 81566A, 81576A,?
- Attenuators (RF) 8494A
- Attenuator set (500 ¦¸) 350C
- Attenuator set (600 ¦¸) 350D
- Attenuator switch driver
- Audio analyzers? 8903A, 8903B, 8903E,? ?
- Base station test sets
- Bit error rate testers (BERTs)
- Cables
- Capacitance meters U1701A, U1701B, 4272A, 4278A, 4279A
- Capacitor Bridge 4270A,
- Capacitor standards 16380A, 16380C,?
- Carrier noise test setsi
- Cesium frequency standards
- Clamp ammeters
- Close field probes
- Crystal Impedance E4915A, E4916A
- Data Acquisition Systems (DAQs)
- DC power analyzers
- DC power supplies 6030A , 6031A , 6032A, 6033A, 6035A, 6131C, 6621A, 6622A, 6623A, 6624A, 6627A, 6255A, 6645A, 6671A, 6672A, 6673A, 6674A, 6675A, 62003A, 62003C, 62003E, 62004A, 62004B, 62004E, 62005A, 62005B, 62005E, 62006A, 62006B, 62006E, 62010A, 62010C, 62010E, 62012A, 62012C, 62012E, 62015A, 62015C, 62015E, 62018A, 62018C, 62018E, 62024A, 62024C, 62024E, 62028A, 62028C, 62028E, 62048A, 62048C, 62048E
- Delay lines
- Detectors
- Device current waveform analyzers
- Digital communications analyzers
- Directional couplers
- Distortion analyzers 330B, 330C, 330D, 331A, 332A, 333A, 334A, 339A, 8903A, 8903B, 8903E,???
- Dynamic measurement DC source
- Electrometers
- Fading simulators
- Femto ammeters
- Filters
- Frequency counters 522B, 5342A 5343A 5352B
- Frequency standards?
- Function Generators ? 3310A,? 8165A,
- GPIB controllers, extenders, cables etc.
- GPS frequency standards
- Harmonic mixers
- High resistance meters 4339B
- High resistance meter fixtures 16008B
- HEV EV Grid Emulators and Test Systems
- In-circuit test systems
- Impedance analyzers 4195A, 4291A, 4291B, 4395A, 4396A, 4396B, 4294A, E4990A, E4991A
- Impedance Analyzer Accessories
- Impedance / Gain Phase analyzer 4194A
- Impedance Meter 4193A,
- Isolators
- LCR meters? U1701A, U1701B, U1731A,? U1731B, U1731C, U1732A, U1732B, U1732C, U1733C, 4191A , 4192A, 4194A, 4195A, E4196A,? 4216A, 4260A, 4261A, 4262A? 4263A, 4263B, 4271B, 4274A, 4275A, 4276A , 4277A, 4284A, 4285A, 4286A, 4287A, 4291A, 4291B, 4294A, 4332A, 4342A, 4395A, 4396A, 4396B, E4980A and E4980AL
- LCR meter calibration devices? 16380A 42030A? 42090A, 42091A and 42100A
- LCR meter accessories
- 2-Terminal BNCs.
- 4-Terminal Pair (BNC connectors)
- Cable extension 16048A, 16048D, 16048E, 16048G, 16048H
- DC current bias accessories 42841A, 42842A, 42842B, 42842C, 42843A
- DC voltage bias accessories 16065A, 16065C,
- Kelvin clips 16089A, 16089B, 16089C,16089E
- Lead Components 16047A,16047B, 16047D, 16047E
- Material 16451B, 16452A
- Probes 42941A
- SMD 16034E, 16034G, 16034H
- 2-port 16096A
- 7 mm (APC7)
- 2-Terminal BNCs.
- LCZ meters? 4276A, 4277A,
- Lightwave clock / data receivers
- Lightwave converter
- Lightwave component analyzer
- Lightwave measurement system mainframes
- Lightwave polarization analyzers 8509B
- Logic analyzers
- Nemo wireless network solutions.
- Noise and interference test set
- Noise figure analyzers
- Noise sources 346A, 346B. 346C ,
- Matching pads (50 ohm to 75 ohm or similar)
- Materials test equipment
- Microwave repeaters
- Microwave downconverters 70427A
- Microwave / THz sources
- Milliammeter 428B
- Milliohm meter
- Mobile communications DC source
- Modular instruments
- AXIe
- Data acquisition (DAQ)
- USB
- PXIe
- Modulation analyzers
- Multimeters 427A, 970A
- Optical attenuators
- Optical heads
- Optical sources
- Optical spectrum analyzers
- Oscilloscopes 120A, 120AR, 120B, 122A, 130A, 130B, 130BR, 130C, 140A, 140B, 141A, 150A, 150AR, 160B, 180A, 180AR, 180CD, 181A, 181AR, 181T, 181TR, 182C, 182T, 183A, 183B, 184A, 184B, 185A, 185B, 1200A, 1200B, 1220A, 1221A, 1703A, 1707A, 1707B, 1710A, 1710B, 1715A, 1722A, 1725A, 1726A, 1740A, 1741A, 1742A, 1743A, 1744A, 1746A, 1980A, 1980B, 5403A, 6000A, 6000L, 16533A, 16534A, 54100A, 5410B, 54100C, 5100D, 54111D, 54120A, 54120B, 54200A, 54501A, 54502A, 54503A, 54504A, 54520A, 54520C, 54540A, 54540C, 54542A, 54542C, 54600B, 54601A, 54601B, 54602B, 54603B,? 54645A, 54654N, 54710A, 54720A, 54750A, 54825N, E1428,?
- Oven controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs)
- Pattern generators
- PCM terminal test set
- Phase noise measurement
- Pico ammeters
- Printers 2225
- Plotters 7470A, 7475A?
- Probes
- Protocol analyzers and exercisers.
- Power booster test sets
- Power meters 431A, 431B, 431C, 432A, 435A, 435B, 437B, 438A
- Power splitters
- Power supplies
- Pulse generators
- Q-meters 4342A?
- Q-meter calibration inductors 16470A
- Reflection transmission test set
- Return loss module (optical)
- Relays / switches / switch matrices (optical)
- Relays / switches / switch matrices (RF)
- Resistor standards 42030A?and 42100A
- S-parameter test sets
- Scalar network analyzers
- SCSI bus preprocessor interface E2324A
- Selective level meters 3746A
- Semiconductors
- Semiconductor parameter analyzers 4145A, 4155B, 4156B,
- Signal analyzers
- Signal generators / sweep generators / signal sources / oscillators 200CD, 201B, 209A, 204D,? 608A,? 8165A
- Software
- Source measure units
- Spectrum analyzers 4195A,???
- Switch control units
- SWR meter 415E?
- Time interval? counters
- Time mark generator 226A
- Timing and data state modules
- Torque wrenches
- Transmitter testers
- Trigger modules
- Ultrasound transducers
- Universal bridge? 4260A, 4265A, 4265B?
- Vacuum tube voltmeter 410C
- Vector Impedance Meter 4193A, 4800A, 4815A
- Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs) 4195A,? 8510A, 8510B, 8510C, 8753A, 8753B, 8753C, 8753D, 8753E, 8753ES, 8752ET, 8719A, 8719B, 8719C, 8719D, 8720A, 8720B, 8720C, 8720D, 8720ES, 8722A, 8722B, 8722C, 8722D, 8722ES,
- Vector Network Analyzers (VNA) calibration kits 85032B, 85032E, 85033C, 85033D, 85033E, 85050B, 85050C, 85050D, 85052B, 85052C, 85052D, 85054A, 85054B, 85054D, 85056A
- Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) verification kits
- Vector Signal Analyzer 89650S, 89600S
- Vector voltmeters 8405A, 8508A,
- VXI mainframes 70000B, 70000C
- Waveform and function generators
- Waveguide to waveguide and waveguide to coaxial transitions.
- Wireless 58 OTA chambers
- Wireless channel emulators
- Wireless network emulators
- Wireless communication test sets
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Re: Buying a used VNA
Shown is my old HP8754A and my software for it compared with my software for the PNA.
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Joe Smith
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HP 8665A Latest ROMS
The HP8665A?Installation Note 08665-90067 lists 4.2.1 as the last version. I see there is a 4.2.2 in the files section but labeled for the 8665B.
Can this be used on the A version? If not can someone
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vk2bea
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Re: New member intro
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doug
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Re: Question: XY (XYZ or Vector) instrument CRT, replacement with an LCD ?
I looked at the 1700 page data sheet for the Arm Cortex 32 bit CPU and the
much smaller development board data sheet (30 pages?).
It looks complicated!
I have a RaspberryPi 3 inserted in a SmartiPi
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peter bunge
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Re: HP200CD oscillator
Largely, PCB transformer oil is sufficiently inert that
it won't hurt you. All that happened to technicians that
had their arms up to their arm-pits daily in PCB oil while
servicing HV supplies, is
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Chuck Harris
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Re: Question: XY (XYZ or Vector) instrument CRT, replacement with an LCD ?
I am impressed with the video and would love to add an LCD to my HP4192A
Impedance Analyzer that has no CRT and expects an XYY analog pen plotter.
Anyone interested please contact me privately and
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peter bunge
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Re: HP200CD oscillator
Be careful when handling the oil in those old bathtub caps. The older ones
are full of PCBs.
Dave Casey
[email protected]> wrote:
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Dave Casey
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Re: HP200CD oscillator
Regarding reliability of oil filled capacitors, a while back a friend had the main filter capacitor of an HP410B fail.? It exploded.? It was an oil filled bathtub capacitor, maybe 4 microfarads.?
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Bob Albert <bob91343@...>
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Re: New member intro
Chris; it depends on your hobby, What do you want to do?
One of my hobbies turned out to be fixing old HP test equipment because it
was an excellent way to learn electronics. The manuals for the 1960s
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peter bunge
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Re: HP200CD oscillator
?? I absolutely agree with this. However, all paper caps tend to become degraded with time. The Sprague caps seem to have had a peculiar problem and short time failures but all old paper caps should
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Richard Knoppow
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71910A surveillance receivers
Hi all
I am trying to find out the sort of work People?are managing to do with the HP 71910A surveillance? receivers
It would also be nice to see how meany are out there and how many are actual
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: Question: XY (XYZ or Vector) instrument CRT, replacement with an LCD ?
Unfortunately all analog displays cannot be replaced by LCD displays without a very important quantity of associated electronic. All is question of bandwidth first. On spectrum analyzers, SNA or VNA
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F1EKU
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Re: Question: XY (XYZ or Vector) instrument CRT, replacement with an LCD ?
Hi just a bit of information
we have a lot of the New scope literature in the?Catalogue's file on this site
Regards Paul
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: Seeking advice for an HP-3336C
Fixed my attenuator problems using Joe's board.? The 3336C with the Aromat relays are not the same spacing as the 3325 so the PCB had to be sheared.
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Dave Schmidt
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Question: XY (XYZ or Vector) instrument CRT, replacement with an LCD ?
hi,
In the event of instrument CRT death, one might want to do a replacement having an LCD display:
The question is:
-- are there any existing modules ( or schematics, or projects )? that might be
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gren
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Re: New member intro
The only one of those I recognize is the 3456A DVM, as I purchased one a
year or two ago. eBay prices range from less than US$100 to several hundred
depending on condition, calibration, and the
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Jeremy Nichols
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Re: HP200CD oscillator
Hi Richard,
I have never seen anything that would lead me to believe
an end cap was glued onto the body of the capacitor, but
maybe that is what they did? Or, maybe the capacitor was
built in
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Chuck Harris
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Re: New member intro
Hi Chris
Welcome to the group but your problem is not new and one that most on this group suffer from
Covid shut down for the past 2 years has meant a lack of rallies / to reduce our stock and
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Paul Bicknell
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New member intro
Hello Group!
I'm trying to get a handle on my test gear and decided to start looking at my HP hoard.
I need to decide what to keep/fix/purge/replace and finally joining here seemed like a good first
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Chris Wilkson
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Re: HP200CD oscillator
Is this descended from the same company?
Solar Electronics Co10866 Chandler Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
And what about
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Bob Albert <bob91343@...>
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