Handheld spectrum analyzer shows live complex digital RF environments

Handheld spectrum analyzer shows live complex digital RF environments

Allows lab-quality, 10-kHz to 6.2-GHz measurements developed during design to be made on site in the real world

The handheld SA2600 real-time spectrum analyzer with DPX waveform image processor technology provides a live RF view of the spectrum, something swept spectrum analyzers can’t do. Thus they can capture real-time events such as intermittent frequency interference, a real challenge for high-speed digital RF transmissions that use complex modulation and frequency-hopping schemes, typical of modern communications methods such as WiFi, WiMAX, UWB, and UMTS.

The analyzer covers the range from 10 kHz to 6.2 GHz, providing a 20-MHz-wide real-time window with an extremely low displayed average noise level (DANL) of 153 dBm at 10 Hz RBW. With DPX’s spectrum processing rate of greater than 2,500 spectrum measurements per second more than 100 times faster than any swept spectrum analyzer the instrument provides 100% probability of intercept for transients with minimum event durations of 500 μs. (DPX is also available now on the H600 “RF Hawk,” a military unit launched in February.)

Intuitive user controls and a touch screen permit quick and simple on-site location and classification of both analog and digital RF transmissions. And integrated GPS and mapping tools let users to pinpoint and report interference locations more efficiently capability. (From $22,900 available now.)

Tektronix , Beaverton , OR
Information 800-833-9200
http://www.tek.com