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From: Tom Gootee on 8 Dec 2009 00:46 On Nov 15, 2:01 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:43:51 -0800 (PST), Tom Gootee > > > > > > <t...(a)fullnet.com> wrote: > >On Nov 12, 9:36 pm, Pieyed Piper > ><pieyedPi...(a)thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > >> I put one of these in about every other rack. > > >>http://www.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_upload/E4440A_800x583.jpg > > >> About once a week. 26GHz > > >These are extremely handy: > > >http://www.aeroflex.com/ats/products/product/Broadband_Test/Broadband... > > >with 600 MHz recording/playback/analysis bandwidth, anywhere up to 18 > >GHz. But they are a bit expensive. > > >We have some E4440 spec ans, but mostly use the E4407B models, since > >we have tons of those. > > How is support on that thing? We bought an Aeroflex spectrum analyzer > and it's buggy and has some problems. They can't support it because > it's made by somebody else in Korea who they seem to have little > influence over. > > John- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Well, the support we get is really excellent. But we are a Very Large customer of theirs. Those digital sampling/analysis/playback units are made by Aeroflex themselves, right here in the USA (CA). They bought out the original company ("Celerity", maybe?), which was founded by the architect/designer of those systems, Jack Anderson. He used to come visit us regularly, before he unexpectedly and tragically died, just last year, way too young. He was a truly-great person; a remarkable, wonderful, unassuming, modest, dedicated, and super- intelligent man. We don't buy many of their other products, except for programmable switched attenuators, which I believe are really a Weinschel product. We also use some of their fixed high-power attenuators. |