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No more big boxes taking up your workspace. A Signal Hound is small enough to fit in your shirt pocket, and powered by your laptop or desktop PC's USB 3.0 connection.
Use external or video trigger to measure PLL lock time and VCO performance of a frequency step.
Using a Signal Hound spectrum analyzer and tracking generator, quickly measure and tune filters. Add a directional coupler to measure your antenna’s return loss
Using Zero Span, view frequency, amplitude, and phase vs. time. Analyze your transmitter’s amplitude, pulse width, symbol rate, modulation depth, and more
Within the rapidly-growing field of wireless development, testing, and repair, it's not uncommon to require multiple spectrum analyzers, which is often cost-prohibitive. This white paper details a new approach to test and measurement with devices that are addressing this challenge.
Imagining the universe during the first hundreds of millions of years remains one of the most prominent challenges in modern cosmology, but researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara press forward undaunted, relying on Signal Hound spectrum analyzers for a portion of their measurement processes.
Using standardized measurements associated with neutral hydrogen, UCSB is using Signal Hound BB60A and BB60C spectrum analyzers to identify possible “phases” of early universe creation, particularly related to events such as the creation of stars, galaxies, and black holes. The technical ability of the Signal Hound devices is key to the project.
“The ability to make a terrestrial measurement of the global cosmic 21cm line has previously been limited by the available instruments” says Rory Barton-Grimley, researcher at UCSB. He continues by stating that “Utilizing the Signal Hound BB60A for our initial system tests, we have [been] able to generate real-time measurements across many different frequency bands. The sample rate and system bandwidth of the BB60A and C fit our experiment ideally, allowing us to generate a large amount of data over a large bandwidth.”
Barton-Grimley is also appreciative of the software and the open nature of the GUI. He states that “The native Signal Hound software also proves to be a good tool for on the fly system calibration and verification, though for science measurements we have developed our own in house Python API wrapper with specific functionality needed for our particular experiment.”
The capabilities of the spectrum analyzers allow the institution to reliably work with collected scientific data, helping further their research endeavors. Barton-Grimley states:
“The Signal Hound BB60C is the center point of our instrument, driven by its availabilities and internal abilities. It is proving to be a crucial part [of] our pursuit in measuring the global cosmic 21cm line.”
Ed Thurmond, Sr. Design Engineer at ClearOne says:
We have had a USB-SA44 in use at a production line test station since 2010. The unit is used every single day and has never skipped a beat. With as much resolution as a larger more costly spectrum analyzer, the Signal Hound really delivers performance at a great price.
