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azonenberg>
looks like my new probe board will be in tomorrow
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tnt>
did you get that counter btw ?
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bvernoux>
it is shipped
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bvernoux>
and it was also calibrated
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bvernoux>
I will check it with GPSDO ;)
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bvernoux>
but I do not have the HW to test it up to 20GHz ;)
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bvernoux>
6Ghz at max with one of my SDR or 3GHz with my signal generator (to be received also)
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bvernoux>
Do you have one ?
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tnt>
nope, the only counter I have is a 53131A and I haven't made the multi-GHz addon for it yet.
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bvernoux>
I'm checking also that ANRITSU MS8609A 13.2GHz Spectrum Analyzer
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bvernoux>
it seems amazing for the price
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bvernoux>
less than 2KUSD
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bvernoux>
Anritsu MS2721B Spectrum Analyzer 9kHz to 7.1GHz with Tracking Generator
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bvernoux>
but the MS2721B is quite slowwwww
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bvernoux>
In worst case there is the amazing new Siglent SSA3021X ;)
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bvernoux>
which can be easily SW upgraded to 3.2GHz
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bvernoux>
but Anritsu old SA are better in fact on paper it is just they are very old and "slow" and potentially have issue ;)
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tnt>
Yeah it's always a balance ... really depends if you'll do anything above 3.2G or not ...
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bvernoux>
fun things will be to by a xaVNA too in order to check what we have for the price (less than 500USD)
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bvernoux>
tnt, I would love to play with ADAS but it requires > 40GHz and it is clearly not in my budget ;)
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bvernoux>
so yes for lot of things less than 3GHz is good
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bvernoux>
I have bought xaVNA ;)
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bvernoux>
for less than 300USD it seems very good for the price
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bvernoux>
and it is fully open source I will check if I will customize some things on it like the XTAL ...
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