Economical 3.2GHz Spectrum Analyzers from Rigol

Affordability, performance, and advanced features make these RF analyzers ‘must-have’ test equipment

The Rigol DSA832E Spectrum Analyzer is a high performance, economical, and compact 9kHz to 3.2GHz Spectrum Analyzer. A tracking generator function is available with the “-TG” model. The digital IF circuitry guarantees reliability and performance that meets the most demanding RF applications. The rugged but very affordable DSA832E Spectrum Analyzer has a broad set of features and specs, including a large 8” WVGA color LCD and intuitive front panel controls.  Available options include a preamplifier for very small signals, a VSWR measurement toolkit for configuring and evaluating antennas, as well as an advanced measurement kit that enables additional functions such as channel boundaries and signal-to-noise ratio measurements.

• 10Hz Minimum Resolution Bandwidth: with -148dBm Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) for low-level signal measurements. 
• Zero Span Function:  allows the signal envelope to be seen when demodulating an AM signal
• Peak Table Function:  readout of up to 10 peak Frequency/Amplitude values. 
• Low Phase Noise:  excellent single sideband phase noise allows nearby small signals to be accurately measured.
• Powerful PC Software: remotely control and setup, read back the data, perform measurements and data analysis; display powerful spectrograms and waterfall graphs.
• EMI Pre-compliance Test Software: quickly locate product problems, enabling them to pass subsequent formal EMC testing.

For Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other RF designs, high performance specs like SSB Phase Noise as low as -90 dBc/Hz (10kHz offset) allow engineers to more accurately analyze modulation and noise issues in signals of interest.  Whether debugging an RF transceiver set, designing layout or configuration changes to maximize efficiency, or testing a system in noisy environments, the economical DSA832E Spectrum Analyzer helps to quickly and affordably identify and examine areas of RF concern.

DSA832E Spectrum Analyzers are made by Rigol Technologies, a rapidly growing manufacturer of high quality, high performance and value-priced test equipment.     Offered with a remarkable 3-year warranty, DSA832E Series Spectrum Analyzers are available now from Saelig Company, Inc.  1-888-772-3544  info@saelig.com   

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Rail Professional Magazine's Editorial on ABI Electronics Ltd

Check out pages 138-141 of this European Rail magazine:   https://issuu.com/railpro/docs/june_issue_abc6379c0907e4

JRKerr’s Motion Control Systems Make Motor Movement Easy!

JEFFREY KERR, LLC.  (JRKerr) makes easy-to-use PIC-based motion control boards. Their PIC-SERVO motion control boards have integrated power amplifiers for DC servo motors, brushless servo motors and stepper motors; or use their versatile controller chips for your own motion control board design. They are easily connected to standard serial ports for creating powerful multi-axis, mixed-motor control systems.

We take the mystery out of motion control!  See product brief.

JRKerr’s PIC-SERVO motion control systems are installed around the world in applications as diverse as biotech automation, oilfield automation, mass data storage systems and NASA experimental vehicles. We offer motion control boards with integrated power amplifiers for DC servo motors, brushless servo motors and stepper motors, as well as controller chips for your own custom boards.   They are easily connected to standard serial ports, so you can quickly create powerful multi-axis, mixed-motor control systems.   The boards are based around a Motion Basic Controller IC - a microcontroller which allows you to create simple stand-alone motion control programs for up to 8 of our NMC motion control modules. Using our easy-to-use Windows based programming and debugging utility you can quickly create BASIC language programs which include motion commands. Motion Basic programs can also communicate with another computer over an RS232 or USB port. The Motion Basic controller chip is designed for use with our SSA-485 board to allow non-programmers to create simple motion control applications. 

The brush, brushless and stepper motor control modules all integrate high level motion control functions and power amplifiers into a single board. Each board gives you everything you need to control your motor from a PC or other host controller.

There are two basic options for implementing your motion control application:

1) Use a PC or other host to send commands directly to the motion controllers, or

2) Use our SSA-485 adapter board as a stand-alone controller.

Option 1 All controllers can communicate with a host computer (PC, PLC, embedded processor, etc.) using fullduplex (4-wire) RS485 serial communications. Up to 32 control modules (PIC-SERVO, PIC-STEP, or PIC-I/O) can be connected to a single serial port. Host controllers with a standard RS232 port or USB port can use our SSA-485 Smart Serial Adapter.

For optimal efficiency, your host can send commands directly to the motion control modules using their native binary NMC communications protocol. For non-demanding applications, however, your host can also use a simplified ASCII Command Interface (ACI) mode. Use of the ACI mode requres the Motion Basic controller chip described below. Example programs for Windows and other systems can be found on our software page.

Option 2 Alternately, the controllers can be operated in a stand-alone mode with our SSA-485 Smart Serial Adapter with our optional Motion Basic controller chip installed. You can create simple BASIC programs using our Windows based Motion Basic programming application and then download the program to the SSA-485 / Motion Basic controller. (More sophisticated applications may also be implemented in C using a PIC18Fxxx processor instead of the Motion Basic chip.) 

More here: 

This board has been a best-seller for YEARS!

DeVaSys specializes in USB-I2CI/O boards for easy access to I2C peripherals.

Ideal for integrating into equipment (e.g. manufacturing test set-ups) with your existing or planned application software – where you know that only your own software will suit your needs and you must have a reliable interface board! USB-I2CIO provides simple long-life hardware, a simple API, and ROCK SOLID firmware, dll, and driver…. all for a very reasonable price.  When we say ROCK SOLID CODE, this is where most other I2C boards fall down.  All this, with custom support available too!  This board is used by manufacturers around the world.

The USB-I2C/IO interface board provides a simple, "drop-in", solution for customers that need to connect hardware to a PC. The new Rev. C1 board provides up to 32 bits of user-configurable digital I/O, an I2C/SMBUS interface with a configurable clock (100Kbps, 400Kbps, 1Mbps, etc.), and more.

Key Features:

12Mbps USB 2.0 interface (full-speed device) to host P.C.

Silicon Labs C8051F340 micro-controller (48Mhz, 63KB flash, 4KB sram, USB, I2C/SMBUS, SPI, etc.).

Up to 32 bits of user configurable, general purpose digital I/O via commonly available 0.1" spacing connectors.

I2C/SMBUS multi-channel interface supporting configurable clock speeds, onboard 16KB I2C eeprom (fully available to user, and on it's own I2C bus segment for isolation), 5 pin connectors for attaching external I2C hardware.

USB Status LED, lights on enumeration, blinks to indicate USB traffic, off when suspended.

Error LED, indicates when the board's firmware has detected an error, error can be read and cleared via API.

Small form factor (3.0" X 2.25") with 0.125" mounting holes in corners.

Downloadable board firmware, simplifies updates and allows for code customization.

Included API (applications programming interface) software implemented as Windows DLL in C, gets your application up and running fast!

Applications:

USB to I2C/SMBUS bridge for interfacing to a wide variety of I2C/SMBUS components.

USB to general purpose digital I/O bridge for interfacing to switches, LEDs, and other hardware.

Can be used as low cost prototype hardware for developing your own Silicon Labs C8051F340 micro projects.

Test fixture interface.

Rapid prototyping interface.

Data Acquisition.

Hardware:

The full-speed USB interface provides your application hardware with a "Hot Plug and Play", 12Mbps, industry standard connection to your P.C. host.

Utilizes Silicon Labs C8051F340 USB micro-controller.

Power configuration jumper allows board to be powered by USB or by external circuitry.

I2C power configuration jumper allow I2C bus to be powered by variety of sources (+5V, +3.3V, External voltage).

Debug Connector footprint provides for using board as low cost development hardware for your own C8051F340 projects.

EEPROM Write Protect jumper provides protection from accidental onboard EEPROM erasure.

Click this link to view the schematic (or right click and choose "save" to download a copy of the pdf to your computer).

Software:

The included device driver, dll, and example application software make it easier than ever to access your application hardware from your PC.

The software provides support for connection of multiple boards, making the USB-I2C/IO a great solution when multiple equipment instances are required (test fixtures, production equipment, instruments, etc.). Each board can be uniquely identified and accessed by your application software via a serial number.

Click this link for drivers, dll, demo and example applications, and the API User's Guide pdf.

PICO PicoLog 1012 10-bit 12-Channel Datalogger (PP546) Logs Data!

The PicoLog 1012 Multi-Channel DAQ is a 10-bit 12-channel datalogger designed to meet the needs of a wide range of general-purpose voltage, sensor and transducer logging applications.  It features independent software-configurable scaling and control outputs, an external terminal board for custom front-end circuitry and 2 output channels. Logging at up to 1 MSa/s sample rate, it is USB connected and powered.  Data acquisition software and SDK is included

The PicoLog 1000 Series is the result of a distinguished lineage that goes back to the release of our first multi-channel data logger — the ADC-11 — in 1993. The original ADC-11, and its successor the USB ADC-11, proved to be the perfect choice for users wanting a low-cost way to measure and record multiple signals. The PicoLog 1000 Series builds on this success to give you the same low-cost data acquisition but with greater power and performance. (Because the ADC-11 was so popular we’ve also added a USB ADC-11 compatibility mode which allows you to use your PicoLog 1000 logger as a direct replacement to the USB ADC-11.) 

Samsung Semiconductor USA: "How incredibly powerful ABI systems are!"

Willian Santos Intl. Sales Manager at ABI Electronics writes:

So pleased to hear yesterday from managers at Samsung Semiconductor in America how incredibly powerful our systems are! It's great when a customer thanks you for helping them make the right decision! #Repairdontwaste

ABI Electronics Ltd

Saelig - our partners in the USA - have successfully delivered ABI's advanced training program to Samsung Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. Samsung recently acquired a full set of solutions from ABI for PCB diagnostic, schematic generation and boundary scan test. We're very pleased with the outstandingly positive feedback received at the end of the training yesterday! #ABISavesYouTime

Here are some of the products they will be using to fix their PCBs:

It's International Recycling Day today

ABI's customers save electronics PCBs from the landfill and save money too!  Instead of discarding failed PCBs, it makes sense to repair them, especially if they are hard-to-get, obsolete, or valuable.

PCB REPAIR PRODUCTS from ABI Electronics are fast-to-learn, suit most electronics technologies, minimize your equipment downtime, and fight obsolescence - all at an affordable price!  Create functioning test programs quickly!  More economical than other solutions, ABI equipment pays for itself quickly, and keeps equipment running longer. Relied on worldwide by armed forces, transport, education, and other maintenance facilities, full hands-on, on-site training can be provided if requested. Rapid and local test requirements, the detection of counterfeit devices, together with increasing financial pressures and performance goals, all increase the demands for efficient maintenance, safe operation, and equipment availability.  ABI has your solution!

Electronic Products Repaired – Fast!  

Need a solution which tests and finds electronic system faults quickly? Which can keep circuits working, extending product life, and help eliminate obsolescence and lack of documentation?  For over 40 years ABI Electronics has designed, manufactured and marketed automatic test equipment for supporting and maintaining products that incorporate electronics PCBs.

ABI Electronics products can assist  … whoever you are

Whether it’s Mass Transit, Defense, or Industry - with profits and funding eroding and severe consequences for equipment failure, the efficient and reliable maintenance of electronic circuits over their working life is vital for modern systems. Many of the world's largest transit organizations, military, and manufacturers rely on ABI Electronics for testing, repair and support of their electronic modules in trains and trackside equipment, including SNCF (France), Metro Sao Paulo (Brazil) and other members of the Latin American Alamys group. 

ABI products can keep your electronics working – close to where they are used, saving time and costs. For safety issues: PCBs can be tested for full confidence, and improved reliability.  Products can have their life extended through regular maintenance – cheaper in-house! Fast turnaround times are now possible for repairs by less-skilled technicians, saving money and time for high value electronic circuits

Benefits of using ABI Electronics products:

• Shorter repair times, inventory reductions and cost savings

• Accepted by major transportation suppliers around the world

• Improves safety and extends operational life

• Repairs and testing can be done by less qualified personnel

• Supports third party and obsolete equipment

Self-maintaining complex, high-value electronic systems require a reliable service provider.  With over 30 years' experience in the test and repair of electronic circuits, ABI Electronics can create and even custom-design the right solution for you.

ISO9000-2001 certified ABI Electronics is a leading manufacturer of test, measurement and fault diagnosis equipment with direct applications in R&D, repair, manufacture, test and education.  Manufacturers worldwide use ABI Electronics test equipment. 

ABI Electronics offers a wide range of products, starting with the flagship BoardMaster 8000 PLUS as a versatile, self-contained and easy-to-use board test system. It offers a comprehensive set of test instruments for fault-finding on almost any kind of PCBs and allows users to generate test sequences. The System 8 Range makes use of a design versatility by offering any combination of the modules found in the BoardMaster 8000 PLUS. The CircuitMaster 4000M simplifies the safe probing of fine pitch PCBs and reduces measurement set-up time.   The JTAGMaster can test, fault-find and program complex PCB assemblies with JTAG ports, including QFPs and BGAs.  The unique RevEng Schematic Learning System generates professional schematics from a sample board. And the award-winning SENTRY Counterfeit IC Detector solves the supply-chain problem of counterfeit components.

More here!

Ching W. Tang

At a concert last night, I met up with someone I had not seen for more than 30 years.  Ching Tang was the inventor of OLEDs while at the Eastman Kodak research Labs, where I also worked in the 1980s.  At that time this brilliant scientist was looking for applications for OLEDs and we were designing blood analyzers that used LEDs as reflectometer light sources. But at that time OLEDs were not very bright and had lifetime issues.  But they did have the blue wavelength we were seeking!

Hong Kong-born American physical chemist Ching W. Tang and his co-worker Steven Van Slyke built the first, revolutionary practical OLED device at Eastman Kodak in 1987.  It used a novel two-layer structure with separate hole transporting and electron transporting layers such that recombination and light emission occurred in the middle of the organic layer; this resulted in a reduction in operating voltage and improvements in efficiency.

OLEDs have come so far since those days - and he commented how amazing it was to have his invention everywhere - on his cellphone, on a 77" TV in his office in Hong Kong.

Bloom where you're planted ...

https://cyclingindustry.news/dont-underestimate-your-abilities-says-bike-mechanic-as-customer-offers-job-at-nasa/ 


A bike mechanic working at Bike Effect in Los Angeles posted an inspiring message to the Professional Bike Mechanic’s Association board, reminding those working in the industry to never “underestimate your abilities as bicycle mechanics”.

The mechanic in question, Stephen Partida, is a Santa Monica local now destined for a role at NASA having impressed a customer who worked at the space agency.

“He liked my attitude, work ethic and my quality of work,” said Partida. “I kept his bicycle in top shape and it paid off tremendously. I’ll be building spacecraft that will travel to Mars and beyond.”
Leaving a vacancy at the pro road shop, Partida says that he posted the message, “not to brag, but instead to inspire.”

He continued: “You do great things. You stem from a long lineage of greats and you are capable of doing greater things.

“Don’t discount a single customer that walks in your doors. Treat everyone with the same level of respect you would want to be treated with. The alter egos of your customers would surprise you.

To Successfully Grow A Business, You Must 'Expect Chaos'

 Really interesting article in this month's Entrepreneur Magazine by Reid Hoffman (https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/292749)

He's the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, Greylock Partner, a mentor to many, and, starting in May, the host of a new podcast called 'Masters of Scale.' Here, Hoffman gives an inside look at how he teaches entrepreneurs to grow successful businesses.

“One of the first things that you learn when you are trying to do scale at speed,” says Hoffman, “is to focus on your learning loops.” The simplest way to define “learning loop” is as a process in which your goals are constantly modified by experience. One of the worst mistakes a startup entrepreneur can make is to stick blindly to plan A when market realities are telling you it is way past time to go to plan B. Hoffman has done a lot of thinking about pragmatic ways to enhance learning loop efficiency.
It’s all about “OODA,” he explains. “Observe, orient, decide, act. It’s fighter pilot terminology,” says Hoffman. “If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.”

The critical point Hoffman is always trying to get across -- in his books, his podcasts, his interviews with journalists and his mentoring sessions with company founders -- is that no one really knows what is going to happen next. Rare indeed is the business plan that survives contact with reality intact.

  

Read on here:  (https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/292749)

ComProbe BPA Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer - only $995!

Automobile and accessory manufacturers are finding the ComProbe BPA Low Energy Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer a great debug tool for only $995!  Decodes all traffic including advertising packets, data packets and LL control packets; provides visibility into all three advertising channels concurrently, even before the connection is established; follows multiple connection requests from the same master to capture the resulting connections. 

In an increasingly mobile world, it’s more important than ever that developer tools are just as mobile as the devices and technologies they’re creating. Frontline puts problem-solving literally in the palm of your hand with the ComProbe BPA low energy Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer. Smaller than a deck of cards and running on USB power, the ComProbe BPA low energy packs a serious punch, decoding all traffic including advertising packets, data packets and LL control packets, and providing visibility into all three advertising channels concurrently, even before the connection is established. A single BPA low energy follows multiple connection requests from the same master to capture the resulting connections.

But powerful tools don’t have to be hard to use. With the ComProbe BPA low energy, setup is easy and requires no synchronization to devices - just start capturing. Working with custom protocols? No problem. The BPA low energy includes DecoderScript, which allows specifying decodes for custom protocols.

The ComProbe BPA low energy Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer from Frontline is the first name in portable, USB-powered, and affordable Bluetooth low energy analysis, and features the rich decoding toolset represented by the powerful ComProbe Protocol Analysis System software at the core of all Frontline developer-class protocol analysis products.

  Easy setup. Just start capturing.

  No need to synchronize to devices.
  Scans and captures all three advertising channels  concurrently.
  Decodes all traffic: Advertising packets, Data packets, LL control packets and more.

More?  See  http://bit.ly/2qA2GKt

Using a Picoammeter to Investigate Leakage Currents in Clamp Diodes

Clamp diodes are widely used in analog electronic circuits, but, like all real-world components, these diodes have some non-ideal characteristics. This article investigates some of their characteristics.

Reverse Biased Leakage Current

Reverse biased leakage current is a characteristic of concern for a clamp diode. Ideally the leakage would be zero but this is the real world, so what can one live with? In a typical application there might be two clamp diodes, one to +15 V the other to -15 V and a common connection to the signal to be clamped. The leakage current drops as the voltage drops, so if that signal is nearer to +10 V, then the lower clamp diode would have more leakage than the upper one. So in such an application, a diode with both low leakage and a fairly flat leakage vs. voltage would be desirable.

   

Figure 1 is plotted data of leakage measurements versus reverse voltage. A quiet DC supply was used along

with an AMETRIX Instruments’ Model 101 Picoammeter to measure the current (and yes, that is single digit femtoamps in the diagram).

 Comments about reverse leakage:

1. The SST4391 is rated for 35 V gate-drain and gate-source

2. The SST4391 costs $0.057 each

3. The 2n3904 has a Vcb maximum of 60 V

4. The MMBT3904LT1G is $0.0231 each

5. The FLLD261 is $0.0275 each

6. The BAS16 costs $0.0151 each

7. The BAT54 costs $0.0204 each

8. The BAS70 costs $0.0323 each

9. The MMBD4148CC costs $0.0194 each

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Forward Voltage Drop

The forward voltage drop is another diode characteristic to be considered for a voltage clamp. These measurements were made as follows (the data is presented graphically in Figure 2):

1. Forward bias the diode with a quiet DC supply that has fine resolution; in this case an EDC calibrator

2. With function generator set to pulse, 1 Hz, 1% duty cycle, drive a mercury wetted reed relay. Connect

the relay contacts across DUT such that the DUT is shorted for 990 msec and unshorted for 10 msec; this is to minimize self heating effects.

3. Measure forward voltage with Tektronix MSO4104 scope with 10x probes to minimize the low forward current errors. Set the scope’s bandwidth limit to 20 MHz to minimize noise. Use the scope’s vertical channel’s offset mode and 10 mV range, adjusting the offset knob until trace is in center of screen, then document the offset voltage.

Conclusion

Some simple measurements with a precision picoammeter can provide much insight into the components that you think might be ideal in a given application; and they might reveal some things that are unexpected.

Rolls Royce? Who knew!

The electronics on Rolls-Royce's aerospace propulsion systems are supported in the UK and abroad by ABI's BoardMaster. ABI's state of the art electronic troubleshooting hardware & software delivers outstanding value and provides the flexibility needed to support complex repair operations managed from the company's multinational offices. #Repairdontwaste 

PCB REPAIR PRODUCTS from ABI Electronics are fast-to-learn, suit most electronics technologies, minimize your equipment downtime, and fight obsolescence - all at an affordable price!  Create functioning test programs quickly!  More economical than other solutions, ABI equipment pays for itself quickly, and keeps equipment running longer. Relied on worldwide by armed forces, transport, education, and other maintenance facilities, full hands-on, on-site training can be provided if requested. Rapid and local test requirements, the detection of counterfeit devices, together with increasing financial pressures and performance goals, all increase the demands for efficient maintenance, safe operation, and equipment availability.  ABI has your solution!

Electronic Products Repaired – Fast!  

Need a solution which tests and finds electronic system faults quickly? Which can keep circuits working, extending product life, and help eliminate obsolescence and lack of documentation?  For over 40 years ABI Electronics has designed, manufactured and marketed automatic test equipment for supporting and maintaining products that incorporate electronics PCBs.

ABI Electronics products can assist  … whoever you are.  Whether it’s Mass Transit, Defense, or Industry - with profits and funding eroding and severe consequences for equipment failure, the efficient and reliable maintenance of electronic circuits over their working life is vital for modern systems. Many of the world's largest transit organizations, military, and manufacturers rely on ABI Electronics for testing, repair and support of their electronic modules in trains and trackside equipment, including SNCF (France), Metro Sao Paulo (Brazil) and other members of the Latin American Alamys group. 

ABI products can keep your electronics working – close to where they are used, saving time and costs. For safety issues: PCBs can be tested for full confidence, and improved reliability.  Products can have their life extended through regular maintenance – cheaper in-house! Fast turnaround times are now possible for repairs by less-skilled technicians, saving money and time for high value electronic circuits

Benefits of using ABI Electronics products:

• Shorter repair times, inventory reductions and cost savings
• Accepted by major rail suppliers around the world
• Improves safety and extends operational life
• Repairs and testing can be done by less qualified personnel
• Supports third party and obsolete equipment

Self-maintaining complex, high-value electronic systems require a reliable service provider.  With over 30 years' experience in the test and repair of electronic circuits, ABI Electronics can create and even custom-design the right solution for you.

ISO9000-2001 certified ABI Electronics is a leading manufacturer of test, measurement and fault diagnosis equipment with direct applications in R&D, repair, manufacture, test and education.  Manufacturers worldwide use ABI Electronics test equipment. 

ABI Electronics offers a wide range of products, starting with the flagship BoardMaster 8000 PLUS as a versatile, self-contained and easy-to-use board test system. It offers a comprehensive set of test instruments for fault-finding on almost any kind of PCBs and allows users to generate test sequences. The System 8 Range makes use of a design versatility by offering any combination of the modules found in the BoardMaster 8000 PLUS. The CircuitMaster 4000M simplifies the safe probing of fine pitch PCBs and reduces measurement set-up time.   The JTAGMaster can test, fault-find and program complex PCB assemblies with JTAG ports, including QFPs and BGAs.  The unique RevEng Schematic Learning System generates professional schematics from a sample board. And the award-winning SENTRY Counterfeit IC Detector solves the supply-chain problem of counterfeit components.

More here!

Saelig Introduces Spectran HF-80200 V5 RSA 20GHz Realtime Spectrum Analyzer

Remote-controlled Spectrum Analyzer and RF recorder can continuously stream and store any spectrum of interest up to 20GHz – even remotely!

Saelig has just introduced the Spectran HF-80200 V5 RSA rack-mounted real-time 9kHz-20GHz Spectrum Analyzer that can capture even intermittent signal transmissions.  Most spectrum analyzers take time to scan through the frequency range and can miss sporadic signals.  But the Spectran HF-80200 V5 RSA has been designed with a remarkable scanning speed and recording time: the analyzer scans from 9kHz to 20GHz in less than 20mS, so that even erratic transmissions or interference can be captured.

This versatile unit which can be mounted on a desktop, in an equipment rack, or even in a distant location for remotely assessing signal conditions without requiring personnel to be present. This eliminates costly, inconvenient visits to difficult locations. Mobile use in measurement vehicles or satellite broadcasting vans is also an ideal application for the HF-80200.

The RSA V5 line of 1U rack mount spectrum analyzers includes versions from 6GHz up to 20GHz capability. They are supplied with full-featured real time spectrum analyzer software (RTSA Suite), which provides for remote data monitoring, extended logging, remote spectrum analyzer control, and 3D display. The software’s intuitive layout and useful display options help to identify, capture, demodulate and track signals up to 20GHz.

The HF-80200 V5 is controllable through a USB interface or LAN/Ethernet, allowing continuous logging and streaming of almost any frequency range, and direct access to the analyzer through an Internet-connected PC. Like the others in this series, it offers AM and FM demodulation. All of the V5 rackmount spectrum analyzers are housed in a durable aluminum case - ideal for RF shielding - and they feature a built-in 20dB preamplifier to permit sensing even the weakest of signals.  The analyzer has been designed with extremely low noise: the Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) specification is -170dBm/Hz (max). 

Made in Germany by Aaronia AG, Europe’s award-winning manufacturer of RF site survey tools, hand held spectrum analyzers, antennas and EMC test probes, the Aaronia Spectran HF-80200 V5 RSA is available now from Saelig Company, Inc., technical distributor for Aaronia USA.

Details here!