I checked the archives and noticed there was scant mention of these units. For the money, these seem like a dream come true. From what I understand, once set up in the test mode, they have most all of the function of the HP-8920 series minus the following:
No Edacs,LTR or any signaling formats or DPL except raw tone generation and DTMF. Three watt limitation No frequency count on Spec A screen Pre-set squelch or none. Otherwise these function as a complete service monitor from 100kc-1 gig and another second band to 1.7gig. I also gather that with a suitable thruline or similar power attenuator, the wattmeter indication can be adjusted to read correctly removing the 3 watt limitation. If all this is correct and with an external multi format tone generator such as Motorola's or Cromco's and a Multiformat tone reader such as Opto's or Connect System's boxes, you pretty much have the entire enchilada por poco dinero. Am I missing something or is this quite possibly a fantastic deal due to the shere amount of orphaned CDMA/TDMA test sets since GSM? Anyone have one of these? The 100 kc-1 gig isn't part of Agilent's specs. Is this a hack or was this a function of earlier units? Any info or caveats appreciated on these units.
