Re: [44net] OT: Toy measurement equipment

Although i dont like the Chinese products you are right The quality and acurecy is far from getting close to professional gear I have a portable pocket size spectrum analayser from hf to 2.6GHZ continues in size of VHF handheld it is a stand alone unit with small display It have connection to big computer with software to get more features on the computer via USB cost me 350 $ Of course it dont beat any professional gear It have only 100 samplepoint for full span which give low resolution bandwidth (depend on the scan span) It scan the whole band in about a second and therefore dont measure quick events so well it consist of a Radio chip which serve for TV tuner which scanning the band and of course it dont have a high dynamic range but still for 350 $ you can get powerful toy I use it a lot when im in the field and want to "see" the spectrum and get quick idea what is in the area In case someone interested it is here www.rfexplorer.com<http://www.rfexplorer.com> Regards Ronen - 4Z4ZQ http://www.ronen.org Ronen Pinchooks (4Z4ZQ) WebSite<http://www.ronen.org/> www.ronen.org ronen.org (Ronen Pinchooks (4Z4ZQ) WebSite) is hosted by domainavenue.com RF Explorer – Low-Cost, Handheld, RF Spectrum Analyzers<http://www.rfexplorer.com/> www.rfexplorer.com RF Explorer is the latest breakthrough device in low-cost, RF spectrum analysis. It operates both as a standalone, handheld RF spectrum analyzer and also interfaces ... ________________________________ For about $25 you can get the Aneng AN-8008 DMM that has 4 digits (9999 count) and measures