[time-nuts] Oscillator and Synthesizer (and Analyzer) Specs

[John Miles]

Sounds like an interesting box, all right.  Send me one and a GPIB manual
for it, and I'll support it. :-)

In all seriousness, I imagine its command set is pretty different from my
8566's, since it appears to be a much newer and more advanced piece of
equipment.  It took a week of back-and-forth emails before I was able to get
the 8560E analyzer working, even though they are largely 8566-compatible.
So I am not too optimistic about being able to add support for the more
exotic analyzers that I can't put my hands on.  The phase-noise app is
open-source, though, so anyone else is welcome to help out.

-- john, KE5FX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Brooke Clarke
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 2:05 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Oscillator and Synthesizer (and Analyzer) Specs
>
>
> Hi John:
>
> How about the HP 4395A.  Although limited to 500 Mhz the performance is
> fantastic.
> http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/4395A.shtml
>
> 73,
>
> Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
> --
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>
>
> John Miles wrote:
>
> > Cool stuff.  I have been trying to gather some similar figures
> for various
> > spectrum analyzers, in the form of baseline plots that show the
> analyzers'
> > response to sources that are much cleaner than their own LO
> subsystems.   I
> > have been including noise plot files for all of the analyzers
> that have been
> > tested to date in my homebrew noise-measurement software package (
> > http://www.speakeasy.org/~jmiles1/ke5fx/pn.htm ).
> >
> > These baseline plots are useful because they illustrate which analyzer
> > models are capable of direct noise measurement at various
> quality levels and
> > carrier offsets.
> >
> > I'd like to hear from anyone on the list who has access to an HP
> > 8560A-series analyzer with a National Instruments GPIB interface and a
> > Windows PC; that's the most conspicuous blank spot in my "collection" so
> > far.
> >
> > -- john, KE5FX
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> >>Behalf Of John Ackermann N8UR
> >>Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 12:00 PM
> >>To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> >>Subject: [time-nuts] Oscillator and Synthesizer Specs
> >>
> >>
> >>For a while, I've had two web pages with specs on various frequency
> >>standards and synthesizers of interest to our community.  I've combined
> >>the two pages and added some additional info.  The new page is at:
> >>http://www.febo.com/time-freq/hardware/specs.html.
> >>
> >>If you have info on additional devices, please feel free to send it to
> >>me for addition.
> >>
> >>John
> >>
> >>
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