[time-nuts] FW: E5500 phase noise test set

Richard Parrish calcntr at swbell.net
Wed Dec 15 16:45:53 UTC 2010


Sorry, I purchased the adapter for a system we were putting together.
Agilent still has some for $500, a bit extravagant for my tastes.
The interface board is made by Intelligent Instrumentation in AZ.
The license for the 5500 is based on the serial number of the 70420A and is
a lifetime license from what I understand.  I do have copies of the software
and I think it's available from Agilent's website.

Thanks,
Richard Parrish
Cal Center Inc
1622 Griffith Ave
Terrell, Texas 75160-4905
calcntr at swbell.net 
214-577-3515


-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
Behalf Of Adrian
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6:50 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] FW: E5500 phase noise test set

The link didn't work, so I searched for PCI20428 and found this:

http://www.bedogmbh.de/seite5010.htm (scroll down to find the card)
Worst case you can buy a break-out box:
http://www.bedogmbh.de/seite1412.php
http://www.bedogmbh.de/pdf/22101035.pdf
I'm not affiliated with them.

Recently I saw that adapter on ePay, but I don't remember the seller, so 
that is probably of no help, I'm afraid.

Btw. do you have the system software?

Adrian


Robert Atkinson schrieb:
> Hi Clive,
> The PCI card was not made by  HP. see<
http://control.etfbl.net/mjerenja/pci20428w.pdf>  for the manual. It's a
multi-purpose card so you need to know which inputs (or outputs) are used.
The HP system description may help. Otherwise you will have to get someone
with the adaptor to do a continuity check on it. Or play a guessing game.
Put a 'scope on the main unit and see it it has analogue or TTL signals and
start from there.
>   
> Regards,
> Robert G8RPI.
>
> --- On Wed, 15/12/10, Clive Green<cgreen at quartzlock.com>  wrote:
>
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> From: Clive Green<cgreen at quartzlock.com>
> Subject: [time-nuts] FW: E5500 phase noise test set
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Date: Wednesday, 15 December, 2010, 12:03
>
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> Subject: Fw: E5500 phase noise test set
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>      I have recently started to put together a used E5500B phase noise
test
> set.
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>      I have bought the main unit, the 70420A test set, from the USA and
have
> got this to work with an GPIB card. I have also bought a used PCI-20428W-1
> digitizer card which the system recognises OK. My problem is that the card
> needs an adapter from the 50 way connector on the card to 2 SMA coaxial
> connectors which go to the test set. There is a picture of this in the
> installation manual which I have attached. Attempts to get information on
> this from Agilent have completely failed as they no longer use the
> PCI-20428W card, and the adapter is long since obsolete.
>
> If is has the adapter, does someone have photos of the inside of it,
and/or
> perhaps trace  the connections between the SMA connectors and the card
> connector. Once I have this information, I am sure I can make another
> adapter.
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> Clive  G3OPX/MM (soon)
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> cgreen at quartzlock.com
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