[AusNOG] ISM Spectrum Analysis: What do you use?

[Guy Ellis]

Hi Curtis,

HP/Agilent have some half decent portable spectrum analyzers - not fat or ugly?

For infrequent use you can hire one from Tech Rentals...
http://www.techrentals.com.au/Products_Detail.asp?ID=10048&productcode=HP%2CE4407B

Cheers,

  - Guy.

At 12:47 PM 18/03/2010 +1000, Curtis Bayne wrote:
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>AusNOG,
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>For those of you running unlicensed microwave gear, what test kit do you 
>use for spectrum analysis?  I am really hoping to get away without having 
>to drop some pretty significant dollars on a fat and ugly HP/Agilent 
>cellular spectrum analyzer. Even off eBay I doubt I'll escape for less 
>than $6k which seems like a waste of money for something I'll use 2-3 
>times/year.
>
>I came across 
><http://www.metageek.net/products/wi-spy-dbx>http://www.metageek.net/products/wi-spy-dbx 
>but they seem a little TOO cheap and I am not sure how granular they are: 
>it also ONLY supports the 2.4 and 5.8 ISM bands so it makes it a little 
>difficult to check resonance/harmonics/whether my competitors are properly 
>licensed or not ;).
>
>Is there a tip or trick I'm missing here? I am not an RF engineer (or an 
>engineer at all, heh) but I am trying to learn more about operational 
>issues so you may need to dumb things down for me :).
>
>Regards,
>Curtis
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