[time-nuts] Sound Card Spectrum Analyzer

[John Miles]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Bob Camp
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:26 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Sound Card Spectrum Analyzer
>
>
> Hi
>
> I've used Cool edit for audio mixing. Very nice program. I hadn't
> realized just how much Adobe had jacked up the price. Lots of
> features, but not the PSD (Hz normalization) or decimation I'm
> looking for.
>
> Maybe what I need is a program called "HP 3561A Dynamic Signal
> Analyzer on your Computer". Just pulled one of those out f the
> shed at work today. That's what got me back to thinking about the
> home version ....

If you don't mind using Windows I can certainly throw an FFT into my
freeware phase-noise app for you.  That's been on my list for awhile, and
since you already have the hardware and know-how to test it, it wouldn't be
hard to justify moving it up in my queue.

-- john, KE5FX