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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
Please also check out HPWiki available here:
- 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: How to find patents for HP equipment
Ok, I'm all for a bit of off-topic conversation once in a while, but.. -Dave
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Dave McGuire
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
McDonald's secret sauce is, I am sure, Bob's Big Boy thousand island dressing. The Big Mac is very similar to the Big Boy except the Big Boy has more flavor. Bob's was a favorite hangout when I was in
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
USPTO does offer PDF copies of patents but you are right that Google has better search facilities. There is also another search engine which has European patents on it but I am not good at working it
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
Exactly. I have somewhere (in my storage somewhere) an anniversary book from Kodak Research Labs. It talks about how difficult it was for the labs to communicate with the manufacturing division
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
That's one of several ways to run it, yes. They came out with a DOS version, it's called "3048A option 301". [eye roll] They've been around awhile, but they work great. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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Dave McGuire
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
Yes, you can run it from a single volume, like a hard disk or a directory on an SRM server. I run mine via the latter. In my lab I have an HP9000-382 running HP-UX from a SCSI2SD board, with an SRM
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Dave McGuire
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
The last time I used a 3048A based system I was about 25years younger ? if I remember correctly the system software ran of a HDD on a HP Workstation , later on they swapped the computer to a HP
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
Have you checked the supply voltage level for the EEPROM ? if the supply voltage is below a certain level than the device is write protected , this is a safety feature that allows designers to use a
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
"Lothar baier" <Lothar@...> writes: Thanks. That software's great, but unfortunately it's not complete. In particular it does not allow me to perform the calibration procedure. Matt
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
Check this PN3048: HP 3048A Phase Noise Analyzer Software for Windows (ke5fx.com)<http://www.ke5fx.com/pn3048.htm> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows Sent:
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
The switch in both cases was not faulty. I think the write protect was activated, but as to the reason, I cannot say for certain. Every other aspect of the analyzer seems to be functional. I also
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Rich Miller
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HP 3048A software without floppy disks
Hello, I asked this question as part of another question on VintHPcom (/g/VintHPcom/message/7448). However, I believe people in this group are likely to have familiarity with the
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
That is indeed strange , the only thing I can think of is that the switch is faulty or that somehow the EEPROM has a write protect enabled Sent from
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
And McDonald¡¯s secret sauce and KFC¡¯s ¡°11 herbs and spices¡± ? Steve
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Steve - Home
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Re: WTD: Filter capacitors for 8662A PSU
One thing to watch out for with modern replacements is the ripple current rating - one benefit of the large Compulytics was that they could dissipate more power. Modern replacements may have a lower
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Harold Foster
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
Hi Pete: There are a number of ways. In general there are two search engines.? The USPTO and Google. The good news is that Google has used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and so you can search
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Brooke Clarke
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
A classic example of trade secret protection is the formula for Coke. Patents expire, but trade secret protection lasts as long as the secret can be kept. Tom
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Tom Lee
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
Yes I threw S400 SW8 - I was never able to get the load to work. In both CPU¡¯s with License Activation Keys it would report ¡°56 OPT COR FAIL¡± when attempting to load it. Trust me, if there were
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Rich Miller
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
To be clear, once an application has been made there is considerable protection until the patent is issued. As someone mentioned there are lots of patent applied for notices on manufactured items.
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
In all reality china and foreign students have changed the game quite a bit , back in the days Development was done in the US , most if not all of the design engineers were US Citizens or hailed from
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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