[time-nuts] Software defined spectrum analyzer

[paul swed]

It is pretty impressive for 10 oz of weight. Thats also a reasonable price
if you did not have the big iron big power units.
Regards

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> On Dec 11, 2010, at 10:14 PM, "Don Latham" <djl at montana.com> wrote:
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> > Jim: Indeed. I've a very small collection of USB instruments so far, but
> it's definitely the way of the future for me. I have an older scope from
> link instruments, the signal hound, and will construct one of the very
> simple component bridges ( uses a dual op amp and a couple of resistors and
> the sound card). As I mentioned, there's a good power meter from
> Mini-circuits, and the ham radio QEX periodical has some designs for a VNA
> albeit not at microwave frequenies...
> >
> I think it would be possible to build a microwave front end for, say the
> tentec tapr VNA.  A nice quiet synthesized LO, etc
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