On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:08:19 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

OK, then. A zener makes a poor noise source according to what I'm reading.
Noise.com used to sell off-spec diodes by the onesies for we poor peons to
play with, but for whatever reason that doesn't seem to be the case any
more.

Given that a zener (at whatever current) is a poor noise source, what is a
good source of electronic broadband noise from low HF through high UHF --
say, 5 to 500 MHz.? (No smart remarks about spark gaps.)

We had this already yesterday in '97 and '98.
The internet does not forget anything, so watch your mouth :-)

http://groups.google.de/group/rec.radio.amateur.homebrew/browse_frm/thread/e072aa7cef573f99/9147bca6602ef8d1?lnk=st&q=Gerhard+Hoffmann+noise&r num=1&hl=de#9147bca6602ef8d1

But, my final solution was to buy an Agilent 346c.

regards, Gerhard