[time-nuts] broadband MPX signal stereo

[Azelio Boriani]

We had the SMBV100 (full options loaded) on a demo for very few days and I
used it as a GPS simulator. The menus I have used didn't let me figure out
what kind of operating system was underneath...

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Florian Teply <usenet at teply.info> wrote:

> Am Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:08:12 +0100
> schrieb Azelio Boriani <azelio.boriani at screen.it>:
>
> > Yes, there is people who have what in the past was expensive test
> > equipment and now can be bought by 1/10 of the original price. The
> > problem is that you need someone who can record 2 seconds of a signal
> > that is slightly beyond the actual sound card sampling capability. A
> > signal that you can have by simply tuning your radio and hooking
> > directly to the FM discriminator output. This signal is available
> > virtually all over the world. AFAIK there was in the past no
> > expensive test equipment that can sample and record a file. Now there
> > are: the R&S SMBV100 can sample and play any signal upto 3GHz with
> > the full options fitted and the companion recorder/player for 200K
> > euros, the file produced are not PC compatible, of course.
> >
> I wouldn't go as far as stating that the files are not PC compatible.
> Of course, you'll probably need some special hardware that does the A/D
> and D/A conversion, respectively, but i'm pretty sure most of what the
> R&S SMBV100 does apart from data conversion is just software running on
> an embedded PC. Plain x86 type hardware, for that matter, as it's
> running either MS Windows or Linux (can't tell directly from the R&S
> website picture, but the more recent the hardware, the higher the
> probability of Linux instead of Windows for R&S stuff)...
>
> It still is very much $$$ though :-(
>
> Best regards,
> Florian
>
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