Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-03-03 Thread John Green
The one we have was part of a big DOCSIS rack that came from Scientific Atlanta. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote: > Am 02.03.2016 um 19:04 schrieb John C. Westmoreland, P.E.: > >> Magnus, >> >> This was the best answer I got so far - I am sure this isn't

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-03-02 Thread Gerhard Hoffmann
Am 02.03.2016 um 19:04 schrieb John C. Westmoreland, P.E.: Magnus, This was the best answer I got so far - I am sure this isn't what you're looking for: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-89441A-Vector-Signal-Analyzer-Opt-1C2-AY9-UFG-AY7-AYA-/252278222960?hash=item3abcf43070:g:uRMAAOxyNo9SojsE I have

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-03-02 Thread Magnus Danielson
John, Currently getting a third VSA is not what I can spend my budget on. I have already got the RF-sections for the two boxes I have, and I have two T conferences to pay for. Getting a major overhaul for the summerhouse consumes most of my money. The only thing I've found is an installation

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-03-02 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Magnus, This was the best answer I got so far - I am sure this isn't what you're looking for: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-89441A-Vector-Signal-Analyzer-Opt-1C2-AY9-UFG-AY7-AYA-/252278222960?hash=item3abcf43070:g:uRMAAOxyNo9SojsE I have one more person that I am waiting for an answer/suggestion

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
To Answer Paul and Jim. The code can be downloaded here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp-tcl/files/net-snmp-tcl/Alpha%200.1/ Basically an interface to control instruments over SNMP using TCL - using Net-SNMP as the base. We used this primarily to control VSA's. I imagine this can

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Magnus, There's an outside chance a buddy of mine may know what to do - I will check with him but no promises unfortunately. It could take a few days. The lib on SourceForge is called NET-SNMP-TCL - Com21 who became TurboNet (in a manner of speaking) used to use it a lot in addition to the labs

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread Jim Sanford
John: I looked and found many implementations of TCL. Which one is yours, and is there any documentation about using it to control instruments over HPIB? Some of the links I looked at suggest it is a general purpose language. BTW, I'm using an Ethernet to GPIB. Love it! Thanks & 73, Jim

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread paul swed
John would that be the command line interpreter? There are a lot of TCLs on sourceforge Regards Paul WB8TSL On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:01 PM, John C. Westmoreland, P.E. < j...@westmorelandengineering.com> wrote: > Magnus, > > I used to be responsible for a couple of labs in the late 90's early

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread Magnus Danielson
John, On 02/27/2016 11:01 PM, John C. Westmoreland, P.E. wrote: Magnus, I used to be responsible for a couple of labs in the late 90's early 2000's where we had several of these. First - do you have this option installed: Add Agilent Instrument BASIC 1C2 ? Unfortunatly not. The trick

Re: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread John C. Westmoreland, P.E.
Magnus, I used to be responsible for a couple of labs in the late 90's early 2000's where we had several of these. First - do you have this option installed: Add Agilent Instrument BASIC 1C2 ? We automated the VSA's using GPIB and TCL. I jumped through some hoops to make the TCL library

[time-nuts] Instrument BASIC

2016-02-27 Thread Magnus Danielson
Fellow time-nuts, This is a little off the normal time-stuff, but I wonder if people just happens to have some suitable input to give. I have a couple of HP89410A/89441A and would like to see if it would be nice to see what could be done using the instrument BASIC. How would I be able to