Low cost receiver/spectrum analyser?
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From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 22 Apr 2010 15:14 Could you please advise a reasonable receiver or RF spectrum analyzer with the price below $10K ? It will be used for the basic EMC work as well as for WiFi/Zigbee deployment. The frequency range should be up to 5.8 GHz so to cover all ISM bands. Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant http://www.abvolt.com
From: brent on 22 Apr 2010 18:23 On Apr 22, 3:14 pm, Vladimir Vassilevsky <nos...(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Could you please advise a reasonable receiver or RF spectrum analyzer > with the price below $10K ? It will be used for the basic EMC work as > well as for WiFi/Zigbee deployment. The frequency range should be up to > 5.8 GHz so to cover all ISM bands. > > Vladimir Vassilevsky > DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultanthttp://www.abvolt.com A used HP8563E is good to 26 GHz and runs approx 10K. They will hold their value. There are also other similar analyzers in the same family that go to about 6GHz (IIRC) and I am sure would be considerably cheaper. If you decide to look at one of the lower frequency ones you may want to take a hard look at the "zero span" time sweep specs and make sure you get fast sweep times. These analyzers seem to have some that have good zero span sweep times and some that are not so good.
From: JW on 23 Apr 2010 05:27 On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:14:58 -0500 Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in Message id: <C5idnabVjJ6DPU3WnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d(a)giganews.com>: > >Could you please advise a reasonable receiver or RF spectrum analyzer >with the price below $10K ? It will be used for the basic EMC work as >well as for WiFi/Zigbee deployment. The frequency range should be up to >5.8 GHz so to cover all ISM bands. I'd recommend an Agilent 8595E, 9KHz to 6.5GHz. You can pick 'em up for 3.5 to 4K in the used market.
From: LM on 26 Apr 2010 13:44 On 22 huhti, 22:14, Vladimir Vassilevsky <nos...(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Could you please advise a reasonable receiver or RF spectrum analyzer > with the price below $10K ? It will be used for the basic EMC work as Try Spectran about 1600E http://www.spectran.com/ Regards
From: Spehro Pefhany on 26 Apr 2010 13:51
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:44:39 -0700 (PDT), LM <sala.nimi(a)mail.com> wrote: >On 22 huhti, 22:14, Vladimir Vassilevsky <nos...(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >> Could you please advise a reasonable receiver or RF spectrum analyzer >> with the price below $10K ? It will be used for the basic EMC work as >Try Spectran about 1600E > >http://www.spectran.com/ > >Regards > Any opinions of R&S vs. HP/Agilent on the used market? |