Re: How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
Hi Danny, You got that one for a good price. Our friends across the pond pay a lot more than $1025 :-) You should run the IODIAG2 test from the ROM tests list if it is present in your test set's
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Robert G8RPI
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Re: Conecting external monitor to HP8924c
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Glad you got it going.
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Ralph Mowery
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Re: How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
Hi Daniel I should also say that the ONLY way that you can be absolutely certain of the frequency range of a HP8920A or a HP8920B is to measure it, so many changes to then have been made by past
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george edmonds
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Re: Conecting external monitor to HP8924c
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Oh, it worked! It was a problem with the LM1881 supply. Thanks a lot, Ralph! ---8<---Corte aqui---8<--- http://www.tabajara-labs.blogspot.com http://www.tabalabs.com.br ---8<---Corte aqui---8<---
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Alexandre Souza
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Re: How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
The SA and signalling option are the only ones I consider required. The high stability means longer warm up time to come on frequency and with the cheap availability of GPS locked references not sure
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John Yelmgren
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Re: How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
Hi Danny Do you know the first five characters of the serial number, Generally 8920A's manufactured before 1999/2000 have an electro-mechanical input assembly (attenuator) and will work down to
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george edmonds
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Re: How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
Hello George Thank you, you've saved me from heaps of digging through pdf's I think the instructions are fairly straight forward, so no need to dig out your 8920A. I'll just cut and paste them into an
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DANIEL RAFFERTY
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Re: How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
Try this To check your installed options: 1) Press the ¡°TESTS¡± button, 2) Select ¡°ROM¡± under procedure location 3) Select LIST_OPTS under procedure 4) Select RUN 5) The HP8920A will now list
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george edmonds
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Re: Conecting external monitor to HP8924c
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Here is what I did. ?While it does not have anything to do with it working, I used one of the DC to DC ?converters that takes any reasonable voltage and will lower it to a value set by a pot on the
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Ralph Mowery
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How to display installed options screen on a HP 8920A
Hello HP8920 hive mind :-) I am asking a seller to get me a photo of the installed options/firmware screen of an 8920A i have just bought. He has given me the options from the rear label, but the
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DANIEL RAFFERTY
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Re: Conecting external monitor to HP8924c
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Tried the GBS 8200 V4.0, CDMA service monitor E8285A. My results: - Composite video into the Y input...No signal - Composite video thru a LM1881 sync separator, video as G, HSync as Sync...No signal -
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Alexandre Souza
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Re: Conecting external monitor to HP8924c
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I'm waiting for my GBS card to arrive and test it. By the photos you need a sync separator, so I connected a LM1881 chip to extract h-sync and v-sync, and I'll test it on RGB input (as a MDA signal,
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Alexandre Souza
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Conecting external monitor to HP8924c
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Hi, I see some very interesting photos? of the HP8924C with GBS8220 Video Converter. (mostly from wb7dmx and others, transferred from the old Yahoo! group) In some of them it seems the GBS8220 was
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sv1mne
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Re: How to write a PCMCIA SRAM card?
My experience with SRAM and Flash cards: I used an old Gateway laptop with WinXP. I could read/write an SRAM card just the same as if it were a drive. I could also read/write a Flash card that came
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mojoehand@...
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Re: 8920B low frequency limit
Hi Robert I think that we are both making the same point but using slightly different language. Somewhere I have an advertising flyer for the 8920A with splashed on the front page "New electronic
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george edmonds
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Re: 8920B low frequency limit
To repeat myself from the other group--- I have an 8935 RF gen goes down to 100KHz Wally
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Wallace Gasiewicz
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Re: 8920B low frequency limit
I made a longer post earlier but it does not seem to have been approved by the moderator yet. The A23 extended option list is in IODIAG2 (my not yet approved email said LISTOPT in error.) I've put a
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Robert G8RPI
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Re: 8920B low frequency limit
Yes, that confirms that you have to check the individual instrument to be 100% sure. The information in catalogs indicate the 8920A should always have had a mechanical A23 module from new. I can find
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Robert G8RPI
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Re: 8920B low frequency limit
The units with the relay based attenuator should also have the .4-1Ghz label on the front ..this is true for the A's and B's the early 8920A only had the relay based RF I/O? standard and the later
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John Yelmgren
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Re: 8920B low frequency limit
Hi Robert As I said I have little experience with the 8920B. The really confusing issue with the 8920A is the front panel which gives the range as 400KHz to 1GHz even when option 055 is not fitted. My
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george edmonds
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