Hi The software for these gizmos dates back to Windows for Workgroups 3.11. That’s a way back. Even getting it running on Windows 95 was a bit of a problem. The biggest issue is that it was hand optimized for some of the timeout delays.
If you bring it up, what you want is an old / slow PC with the oldest OS you can find a copy of. Bob > On Nov 4, 2014, at 10:56 PM, Ivan.Cousins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone else have the pn3048 software running on a PC-gpib system? > > http://www.ke5fx.com/pn3048.htm > > It has been a number of years since I have used a HP3048A-HP11848A system. > I have two HP11848A test sets and a spare PC or two with NI GPIB cards. > > It looks like this will be much easier to use than the old HP 9236 computer. > > What trials and tribulations have people had in setting up a system with that > software? > > One of the things that can be done is determining the noise floor of the > system. > To determine the noise floor I have used a noise generator with a > programmable step attenuator through a resistive combiner with the oscillator > under test output. > > Increase the attenuation until the noise source on-off level is undetectable. > This is an easy way to measure the system noise floor. > Noise sources are usually cheap on ebay because most people do not know how > to use them. > As an RF designer they are easy to use for testing receivers. > > Ivan Cousins > _______________________________________________ > 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.
