Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-30 Thread Daun Yeagley
ing" comments! Daun -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 4:37 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay That would be nice... to

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-30 Thread Javier
That would be nice... to bring a more useful life to my 8922Ss, but I've not been yet able to gather too much information about them. Regards, Javier, EA1CRB Poul-Henning Kamp escribió: > > It would be interesting if somebody tried to convert a cellphone > unit to 8920A to see if it was possibl

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Ackermann N8UR writes: One thing to be very carefull about with these, is that they can function as bona-fide base-stations if you hand them an antenna. I don't need to draw you a picture. >The ad claims it's a derivative of the HP 8920B, and it looks like it

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-29 Thread christopher hoover
> There seem to be a bunch of HP8924C's up on ebay for about $1500. Caveat emptor: I've had problems with that seller and IIRC others have, too. In my case, hee sold me an HP Rb without a physics package, agreed to honor the t&c, took it back but then took months to refund my money -- and only

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-29 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Jeff Mock said the following on 11/29/2007 01:32 AM: > There seem to be a bunch of HP8924C's up on ebay for about $1500. It's > intended function is for CDMA testing, but it seems to be a pretty > general RF communications tester. Even if you don't care about the CDMA > stuff, it's a 1GHz spect

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Mock
Hmm, good points. Here's the 8924C datasheet: http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5968-4094E.pdf I'm not sure about all of the variants for TDMA and GSM and such, but it seems that some are better than others. It looks like the 8924C supports full bandwidth sweeps of the spectrum a

Re: [time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-28 Thread Javier
Hello, I don't know about the HP 8924, but I have two HP 8922S I was given, that I suppose that they are its GSM counterpart. The 8922S is not very useful outside of GSM world, really. The spectrum analyzer has quite narrow sweeps (about 8MHz maximum span if I'm right), the RF generator cannot

[time-nuts] HP 8924C's on ebay

2007-11-28 Thread Jeff Mock
There seem to be a bunch of HP8924C's up on ebay for about $1500. It's intended function is for CDMA testing, but it seems to be a pretty general RF communications tester. Even if you don't care about the CDMA stuff, it's a 1GHz spectrum analyzer, RF signal generator that can be used as a trac