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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: cncjerry on January 09, 2020, 10:05:46 pm
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Given the last thing I need is another boat anchor, what do you guys think about the R&S FSB? I have an HP 8568B with the preselector/preamp x 2 plus an 8566B, a 3562a and an Advantest R3131a with tracking generator. I'm just wondering if I would ever use the FSB once I got done playing with it.
Thanks (hard to turn down T&M equipment especially when it is under $500).
Jerry
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Hello,
if you have rum er room why not.
You can the R&S FSP also use if you want train for a championship in weightlifter or strongman :)
Best regards
egonotto
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The old saw about needing an oscilloscope to repair an oscilloscope applies to spectrum analyzers too. I'd say go for it if you have room.
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I got it home yesterday, bad back and all. It made it to the staging area in the family room. Wife loves it there. I swear my Acura was nose-up all the way home. It has some interesting features but the butt-ugliest color schemes I've ever seen. Here it is displaying a modulated trace from my new BP 8904a. By the way, I love that little 8904 (not so little) for audio work.
One thing I can't figure out on the FSB is the monitor connections on the back. It has Red, Green, Blue, Comp Video, H Sync Comp Sync, Vsync but I don't think the RGB signals are the standard component connections. I remember there being an 'RGB' monitor a while back around the time the FSB was made. Any idea? It has a lot of interface options the HP 8566b doesn't have and I finally got the trace out of it. You have to read the trace as binary using GPIB and turn off the EOL character. I've yet to hook a floppy drive to it as it looks like it has a standard floppy connector on the back. It says you can attach up to three drives.
Anyway, setting aside the back problems, I sort of like the beast. I have a real problem though, space-wise as between this and the HP 3562a I bought last week, I think I am over my floor loading limit for 6" of concrete in the lab.
One other thing about the FSB is that it is sort of quiet compared to my other analyzers.
Jerry
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Hello,
have fun with your new housemate :)
Best regards
egonotto