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R&S SMIQ as a replacement for a general signal generator?
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dkozel:
Thanks to Dave posting about the NVIDIA auction in the UK, this thread just became of the utmost interest to me. :)

I won the SMIQ 03B with options B1 (OCXO), B11 (Data Generator), B20 (Modulation Coder), and B60 (Arbitrary Waveform Generator). I have to figure out the pickup, but will post my impressions here when I have it on my bench.
G0HZU:
Well done on winning the auction :)

I also tried bidding on a different item in that auction but I think they have discarded my (winning?) bid because there has been no conformation yet. Did they send you a confirmation email that you had won?

I think the close in phase noise on the SMIQ will be better than the ESGD when down on the SW bands although the phase noise performance may not be significant to you anyway. But the ESGD is especially poor down here.

dkozel:
No confirmation yet, but I had an email from them that confirmed I was an approved bidder and confirmed my phone number. I won two other items and can send the money today, so hopefully they'll let us know soon.

I'm not keenly focused on the phase noise, but we'll see how it goes. I have a nice GPSDO 10MHz/1PPS unit so will have to compare the references.
G0HZU:
I tried emailing them wrt the auction and their reply was a bit vague. I guess they are very busy just after an auction..


--- Quote ---Hi J....

Once the auction is  over you will receive an email with the Final Auction Results.

If  you were the higher bidder  you will be receiving a commercial invoice 3 business  days  after the auction  has taken place.

Our only payment  method  available for this event  is  Wire  transfer , the  payment instructions  will be displayed on the bottom part of  your  Invoice.  Let me know  if you have any  additional  doubts.

Regards,

--- End quote ---

I'm pretty sure I was the high bidder because the status for that auction ended within my bid range and the status for the item was 'auction ended'  with the same price indicated.

I guess I'll just have to wait and hope but it seems odd that they will accept large bids based on a simple online registration.

I saw the SMIQ 03 in the auction and a few other nice RF items but I only bid once on one big item. One bid one win hopefully :)
Robert763:
Really old thread but I've been doing some related work recently.
I've been wanting to play with a vector RF generator for a while. It's not a need so was low on the budget list.
However I spottted a bit of a "sleeper" generator by R&S. Its a sleeper because its not a signal generator its a "Television Test Transmitter". Model SFQ. While basically a early digital TV test generator, the RF specification is very similar to the SMIQ-03  :) . 300kHz to 3.3GHz -13dBm max output etc. More importantly it has an external IQ modulation input as standard. No AWG internally though. So I eventually bought a AMIQ. That was a learning curve. It was listed as working by a ebay business TE seller. On arrival it didn't work so a discount was negotiated. Repairs included replacing all the electrolytic capacitors on the internal PC motherboard. cleaning the floppy drive and replacing the HDD with a SSD (mSATA in PATA adaptor 2.5" enclosure). And the result is a working Vector Signal Generator with AWG. Total outlay under £200  ;D
There is another sleeper in the R&S TV TE range. The older SFZ. This has less frequency range (70-2025 MHz) and no IQ input BUT it will generate up to three carrriers at once (plus 3 sound subcarriers at fixed spacing if you want). This has interesting possibilities for intermodulation and out of band signal testing.

Robert.
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