You’d need an ESD-safe work area with hot air. Be sure to get an SMA end-launch connector with the longer barrel. The internal shield will have to be removed–it is soldered down with low temperature tin-bismuth solder. And, of course, it will void any warranty you may have. If you’d like, you can send it to us for a quote instead.

I’ll look into what it would take to add sweeping for these devices. Would a 50-100 point sweep be sufficient? Would a minimum bandwidth of 150 Hz be OK? Would a minimum span of 1 kHz and maximum span of 100 kHz (or 200 kHz) work? Would a dynamic range of 80-90 dB be enough? With 80-90 dB of dynamic range (vs 100+ dB) I think I could display the updated points in real-time so you wouldn’t have to wait for the complete trace…

Andy,
We are moving to the “fast, high dynamic range” sweeps. This should work well for any filter with at least 10 kHz of bandwidth, group delay of less than 100 microseconds, and a starting frequency of > 10 kHz. It will give you about 90 dB of useable dynamic range. Do you have filters that fall outside these specs? If so, we are planning on including an enhanced TG CW utility that allows you to, for example, tune to a single frequency and adjust for maximum insertion loss. You should be able to measure well below 100 dB insertion loss this way, and manually step across your frequency of interest. Similarly, for filters with less than 10 kHz bandwidth, you can manually step across them in increments as small as 10 Hz.

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