Anyone used the Thurlby spectrum analyzer?

Can't you get one demo'd for you. I think Farnell still have demo models available (in the uk anyway)

Martin

Not here in the US. You can only order through Newark which then imports the desired merchandise from Farnell-UK. I just did that for a new DSO (which promptly came with an English power plug...). However, AFAIR it said no-cancel, meaning you can't return it. Which was ok for the scope because I knew exactly what I needed. Not so for this analyzer.

I've heard a few complaints about farnell from this side of the pond, about their rediculous charges on stuff from newark, sort of 15ukp for per order.

Apparently the (she) boss at farnell thinks the customers should directly pay for stuff to be shipped over, that is out of stock, think it's a couple of containers a day. Some Scam, on stuff they were going to ship over anyway

Now what was the name of that scrawny boss at HP?

Martin

The other way around it worked fine. I don't remember (could look it up) but the fee I had to pay for getting the fairly large and heavy scope from Farnell-UK, through customs and into Newark was rather miniscule. AFAIR they voided the intra-US shipping charges and even threw in overnight air. From customs clearance to arrival here at the door it was less than 36 hours. No idea how they pulled that off, blew me away.

The farnell guys on the shop floor seem very good, despite the PHB's, who are, after all, only temporary insectoid infestations

Martin

I was just reading this months IEEE EMC society newsletter. Ken Wyatt (of Agilent) presented an EMC toolkit including this SA. You will find a presentation of his techniques (and toolkit on page 18) at:

Interesting! I wonder how he got away with not using an Agilent analyzer while at Agilent. I just emailed him via a form on his photography web site.

The other peculiarity is that his noise generator uses a step-recovery diode (page 42). Wonder where he found those (EBay?).

It's actually about $1.5k. Newark has it but the brand is Tenma, wonder if it's the same (the picture says TTi). I've used one of those portable Rohde&Schwarz last month. It was nice but had an old IrDA link. Luckily there was a cable in its bag that translated to RS232. The bag was actually a nice backpack, perfect for climbing masts and stuff.