[time-nuts] 5 MHz Frequency Doubler

Tim Shoppa shoppa at trailing-edge.com
Thu Oct 26 22:08:59 UTC 2006


Brooke Clarke <brooke at pacific.net> wrote:
> rtHz is Root Hertz.  On the newer HP (Agilent) Spectrum Analyzers  you 
> can display directly in rtHz, but there is no standard ASCII display 
> character for that so they use xx/Hz where xx is something like uV.

Ahah! So that's why that funky old nixie display in my
junkbox has special characters like square root, Hz, and muV and mV
on it! Yet again, mid-20th century technology beats out modern LCD panels!

(Sorry for the glee, but I hate LCD panels on everything.)

Tim.




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