I have one and am very pleased with it. It is very heavy so it is best on the bench. The analog functions are fairly straght forward, however, I still have some questions about the spectrum analyze that seems to be a great feature. Sid.
--- In [email protected], "Dawn" <seape...@...> wrote: > > I checked the archives and noticed there was scant mention of these units. > For the money, these seem like a dream come true. From what I understand, > once set up in the test mode, they have most all of the function of the > HP-8920 series minus the following: > > No Edacs,LTR or any signaling formats or DPL except raw tone generation and > DTMF. > > Three watt limitation > > No frequency count on Spec A screen > > Pre-set squelch or none. > > Otherwise these function as a complete service monitor from 100kc-1 gig and > another second band to 1.7gig. > > I also gather that with a suitable thruline or similar power attenuator, the > wattmeter indication can be adjusted to read correctly removing the 3 watt > limitation. > > If all this is correct and with an external multi format tone generator such > as Motorola's or Cromco's and a Multiformat tone reader such as Opto's or > Connect System's boxes, you pretty much have the entire enchilada por poco > dinero. > Am I missing something or is this quite possibly a fantastic deal due to the > shere amount of orphaned CDMA/TDMA test sets since GSM? > Anyone have one of these? The 100 kc-1 gig isn't part of Agilent's specs. Is > this a hack or was this a function of earlier units? > > Any info or caveats appreciated on these units. >
