Anritsu spectrum analyser teardown - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 03:38:38 pm
content: From the Dark Side.....

author: almoehi
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 05:15:16 pm
content: Hi Mike,I absolutely love how you increase the entertainment factor with each of your teardowns. Had a blast at the end. Big thumps up!Armin

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 07:01:41 pm
content: Excelent!!!Don't know if it is Black Magic... It's BEAUTIFUL.Alexander.

author: muvideo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 07:10:33 pm
content: Surely there is much black art in that box, and be careful, that pcbwill rape your soulwonderful video and equipment.Fabio.

author: jahonen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 07:52:39 pm
content: It looks like there are some hairpin filters there, Sonnet has an example of those, see attached image of a simulation.Regards,Janne

author: saturation
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 10:36:47 pm
content: Great job, Mike! Carmina Burana is great theme music for the magical:Cantiones profanæ cantoribus et choris cantandæ comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments andmagic images.")

author: reagle
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 30, 2012, 11:17:04 pm
content: Excellent video, Mike. Each new one indeed exceeds the previous one in entertaining factor

author: robrenz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2012, 12:16:20 am
content: I thought those were satelite images of the Iranian nuclear faciities

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 01, 2012, 12:21:36 am
content: This is the best teardown ever! Thank you Mike!Oh and a little something about hairpin filtershttp://www.hparchive.com/Bench_Briefs/HP-Bench-Briefs-1989-01-03.pdf

author: flano
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2012, 12:30:47 am
content: Great video Mike. Thanks.

author: T4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2012, 06:12:13 am
content: Quote from: robrenz on October 01, 2012, 12:16:20 amArea 51

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2012, 02:10:44 pm
content: Is this the 7GHz version?Hairpin filters are pretty cool stuff. Unfortunately they work at frequencies starting around 1GHz. So playing with this stuff requires a spectrum analyser and RF generator which work up to several GHz.

author: rolycat
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2012, 07:14:27 pm
content: Great teardown, Mike.Any plans to show us the beast in action, or has hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia set in?

author: Zad
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2012, 05:00:26 am
content: All I can say is, my nickname is Zadoc for a reason. As soon as I saw that RF PCB I was....DroolLucky bugger to have got that Anritsu at a good price!

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 08, 2012, 04:34:39 pm
content: Par excellence ... thanks.