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Agilent E4406A Vector Signal Analyser
davorin:
Just made a little contact with HP-UX today on my 16702A (o;
Bad it requires to boot from another HP-UX machine...
The onscreen drawing updates are quite fast for an older machine....dunno about the remote software tool...
But seems a better choice than using my CRTUs for analyzing modulation....
Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: davorin on September 28, 2015, 07:17:06 pm ---Just made a little contact with HP-UX today on my 16702A (o;
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HP-UX was great, I spent a lot of time with it on the larger servers (K-Class, R-Class) and supercomputers (V2500/V2600). It had a nice utility called SAM (System AdMinistrator) which made the basic setup pretty simple.
--- Quote ---The onscreen drawing updates are quite fast for an older machine....dunno about the remote software tool...
But seems a better choice than using my CRTUs for analyzing modulation....
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Well, both E4406A and CRTU were designed for cell phone testing but they are different devices used in different scenarios. The E4406A is a great signal analyzer but a pretty bad spectrum analyzer. The CRTU is a better spectrum analyzer, plus it's a RF generator, Protocoll Analyzer (under Windows2000) and automatic tester, but it's not a great signal analyzer.
davorin:
Well would be a great combination to get a hand on a E4406A as well....maybe I sell one of my 2 CRTU-RUs even (o;
Hmm..I was more back then the SunOS 4.1.3 guy....configuring SunISDN card and had a hard time to find a provider who supported HDLC protocol for dial-up internet connections...and at workplace at CompuServe Switzerland (remember CompuServe? ;o) I had a Sun E250 as foot warmer under the desk (o;
But I still like the X-Motif interface on the 16702A.....not sure if the E4406A can be controlled remotely as well via a X11...
Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: davorin on September 28, 2015, 07:29:02 pm ---Well would be a great combination to get a hand on a E4406A as well....maybe I sell one of my 2 CRTU-RUs even (o;
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It's a nice device, but for the great fun you'd also need the Agilent 89600A VSA software ;)
--- Quote ---Hmm..I was more back then the SunOS 4.1.3 guy....configuring SunISDN card and had a hard time to find a provider who supported HDLC protocol for dial-up internet connections...and at workplace at CompuServe Switzerland (remember CompuServe? ;o) I had a Sun E250 as foot warmer under the desk (o;
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I remember the E250. It was a nice box but I never managed to get one for some reason, so I ended up with E3000s, E3500s and E4500s (the E3x00s were nice deskside machines, and not too loud). But then, I was more a HP-UX and AIX guy anyways, plus a fair bit of IRIX and ReliantUNIX ;)
--- Quote ---But I still like the X-Motif interface on the 16702A.....not sure if the E4406A can be controlled remotely as well via a X11...
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I never tried but I can't see why not. And in theory it should be possible to connect an external SCSI hard drive (the E4406A has an SCSI port) and a SCSI CDROM, and either install HP-UX/RT to the disk or install a full HP-UX 9.x variant for the 744 on it, and copy the VSA software across.
davorin:
Hmm...the Agilent 89600A VSA software seems an expensive bastard...but read it could be bypassed in a way?
Hmm..Irix....always loved those small SGI espresso machines back then...but back then I switched to Mac...as they had 68k inside and I never liked Intel CPUs with the strange memory layout (o;
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