Everyone loves a bargain. Who doesn’t love a hacked oscilloscope? Well, it would be unusual for an oscilloscope company to teach you how to hack your own hardware. Besides, that’s already been done ...
With regard to retro test gear, one’s thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts simply because there was no other way to ...
The Model 1856C frequency counter is capable of measuring from 5 Hz to 2.4 GHz and features a special 50½-terminated input for use in with VHF, UHF, microwave, and cellular telephone systems. A ...
Tektronix has introduced two counter/analyser ranges, including a 20GHz timer/counter and a microwave counter which operates up to 40GHz. The instruments provide 250,000 samples/s data transfer rate ...
With regard to retro test gear, one’s thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts simply because there was no other way to ...
B&K Precision has introduced a pair of 10 digit frequency counters reaching 3 or 6GHz, with ±1ppm stability across their +5 to +40°C operating range. “This series utilizes a reciprocal counting ...
Recently, for some reason, I have been seeing a lot of references to the good old MM5314/5/6 clock ICs from National Semiconductor. These were some of the first 40-pin LSI (large-scale integration) ...
An accurate way to calibrate a frequency source is to use a high-resolution counter/timer to measure the beat frequency, or phase difference, between the source to be calibrated and a reference such ...