James;

I'll have to look at the one by Green Bay Professional Packet Radio group,
didn't know about it. I would like to do some experimenting around on the
microwave bands just for the heck of it. I've been slowly gathering up
equipment to use.

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Regards,
Leland C. Scott
KC8LDO

"james" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:04:01 -0400, "Leland C. Scott"
wrote:

+++
+++"james" wrote in message
om...
+++ I have been very happy with the unit I have. The front keypad is
still
+++ in very excellent shape as the unit I have was on the factory floor
+++ and control of it was via the GPIB connection from an HP workstation.
+++
+++Well that's good. I'm a bit leery of spending big bucks on used test
gear
+++since you don't know what the last guy did to it abuse wise, something
+++stupid like keying up the xmit with the signal generator still
attached. I
+++found that if the equipment looks good cosmetically there is a good
chance
+++the guy selling it didn't abuse the equipment, much.
+++
+++I would like to get a nice spectrum analyzer but anything worth having
is in
+++the $2K range, a bit too much to take a chance on it from a total
stranger.
+++I could spent $6K on a nice new portable LCD one. 8-))
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If you want a Spectrum Analyzer just to monitor your transmitter
signals and not do design work with there are a couple of nice
circuits on teh net that can be put together for under $200. Maybe
under $100.

The one by the Green Bay Professional Packet Radio group is a nice one
for signal monitoring. It is based on the W7ZOI and K7TAU circuits and
is a better one as it will work up to 1Gig. Granted these are not as
good as commercial built test equiptment but for monitoring emmisions
compliance it is better than nothing. I think the circuit would be
neat to interface it to a quarter VGA color LCD panel.

james