Besides Keygilent, who makes Frequency Counters with GPIB?

[oldway]

You are in bad faith.

Where ever I can, I put forth my best effort to keep Any Keysight out of lab I can.

does not explain why you don't use Keysight instruments but what you are doing "where ever you can" , including on this forum.

[nctnico]

Just wait until you come across a moronic sales team which can only deal with the procedures they understand. I guess something went wrong somewhere and/or wrong impressions where given and the people from the sales team where not able to understand, think and rectify the situation. Dealing with such a sales team won't get you anywhere even though most of the customers have no problem with buying gear through that sales team.

Once it happened to me that a salesguy started yelling at me -the customer- over the phone because I was angry they didn't reserve stock for me as his co-worker promised and on top of that they didn't inform me I had to pre-pay the order  . I had a good laugh when I hung up the phone though because of the sheer level of customer care amateurism I was exposed to. This was a wholesale dealer for computer parts BTW and I won't be buying from them for sure. I guess XFDDesign had a similar problem with Agilent's sales department.

However it may be worth to give Keysight another try through another sales channel since it seems they do care about their customers. I have had good experience with their support for equipment I bought second hand. It would be a pity to settle for a lesser piece of equipment if Keysight is the best fit.

[w2aew]

Tektronix Frequency Counters have GPIB ports:
http://www.tek.com/frequency-counter

[Wuerstchenhund]

The title of your topic leaves clear that the real purpose you are pursuing is to tell what happened there dozen of so years and, as you admit, "Where ever I can, I put forth my best effort to keep Any Keysight out of lab I can. "

Just for the record, I disagree with that assessment, I can't really see anything else than someone looking for alternatives to products made by Keysight. As someone who buys lots of test gear and has had the occasional negative experiences with pretty much any big brand I would still say Keysight is amongst the best you can get. However I can at least to some extend understand the reason XFDDesign is avoiding Keysight products, although I have to agree with nctnico here that he should really give Keysight another shot as their stuff is usually very good, as is the support.

Irrespective of that, the original post came across as genuine, so I'm not sure what the fuss is about. And It's not that he's avoiding them just because of some hearsay horror stories.

[XFDDesign]

Tektronix Frequency Counters have GPIB ports:
http://www.tek.com/frequency-counter

Yup. Thanks to all who pointed them out too. No bullshit, they don't come up when I googled "Frequency Counter GPIB."

We just req'd two of the FCA3ks, so my problem has been solved.

[alexanderbrevig]

You are for Keysight what Satanism is for Christianity.
Antikeysightism?
I respect all beliefs and other religious tendencies, though missionaries tickles me the wrong way.

Sorry for not helping with a suggestion though 


EDIT: I wrote this from my phone and did not see you've find a device. Great! 

[bingo600]

If you have the budget the Pendulum CNT-90 or 91 are soooo cool

Apparently now spectracom
http://spectracom.com/products-services/precision-timing/frequency-counters-analyzers


I would have expected to say Phillps/Fluke PM6680/81/90 too, but can't find any "New" wonder if they're out of production.
Ie. https://testequipment.center/Products/Fluke-PM6690

Or even at Fluke.sk
http://www.fluke.sk/sk/nedodavane-ukoncena-vyroba/fluke-pm6690-662-709.html



Afaik:
The Swedish Phillips Counter division made those nice counters. And they were sold under both Phillips & Fluke brand
I think Pendulum were some of the Phillips guys going solo.


The pendulum has some cool logging software for the PC.


The SRS620 mentioned earlier is also a candidate, but old school (although it might be the most accurate)


Hard to say more ,as your requirements for timing accuracy hasn't been mentioned

Do you need a standard counter w.gpib , or a precision one ??

/Bingo

[R005T3r]

Your best bet may be Rhode and Schwartz.... Take a look:
https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/product/hm8123-productstartpage_63493-44102.html

https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/product/hm8021-productstartpage_63493-147343.html

Even if the second one is a little bit ugly, I can assure you they have made a really good job in miniaturizing it. I don't know how much they are tough, but considering it's ex hameg, in first analysis they will come about $1000...

Also, GPIB module is available, and they support LXI for sure!

[BloodyCactus]

If you have the budget the Pendulum CNT-90 or 91 are soooo cool

Apparently now spectracom
http://spectracom.com/products-services/precision-timing/frequency-counters-analyzers

The cnt-91 looks sweet... hmm.. it also looks 100% identical to fluke pm 6690..

I looked it up, and yes, the pendlum/spectracom stuff is the same.  I did not know the pendulum/spectracom counters were the old fluke/philips counters. thats interesting!

[XFDDesign]

Thanks to all who pitched in.

This showed up today, and it's working quite nicely.

[HighVoltage]

Congratulations.
So, it has 12 1/2 digit resolution?
What is the yellow "analyze" button for?

[XFDDesign]

What is the yellow "analyze" button for?

It has statistics and plotting features, so you can see what kind of variation you get in time. Not particularly useful to me in so far as the form I need it. Overall though, it works nicely.

The other unit is going to be setup this week for the drift measurements we're doing.