We had the SMBV100 (full options loaded) on a demo for very few days and I used it as a GPS simulator. The menus I have used didn't let me figure out what kind of operating system was underneath...
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Florian Teply <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:08:12 +0100 > schrieb Azelio Boriani <[email protected]>: > > > Yes, there is people who have what in the past was expensive test > > equipment and now can be bought by 1/10 of the original price. The > > problem is that you need someone who can record 2 seconds of a signal > > that is slightly beyond the actual sound card sampling capability. A > > signal that you can have by simply tuning your radio and hooking > > directly to the FM discriminator output. This signal is available > > virtually all over the world. AFAIK there was in the past no > > expensive test equipment that can sample and record a file. Now there > > are: the R&S SMBV100 can sample and play any signal upto 3GHz with > > the full options fitted and the companion recorder/player for 200K > > euros, the file produced are not PC compatible, of course. > > > I wouldn't go as far as stating that the files are not PC compatible. > Of course, you'll probably need some special hardware that does the A/D > and D/A conversion, respectively, but i'm pretty sure most of what the > R&S SMBV100 does apart from data conversion is just software running on > an embedded PC. Plain x86 type hardware, for that matter, as it's > running either MS Windows or Linux (can't tell directly from the R&S > website picture, but the more recent the hardware, the higher the > probability of Linux instead of Windows for R&S stuff)... > > It still is very much $$$ though :-( > > Best regards, > Florian > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
