JW wrote:

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:58:53 -0500 "Michael A. Terrell"
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Nico Coesel wrote:

JW wrote:

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:28:51 +0100 Leif Neland wrote in
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JW har bragt dette til verden:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:11:30 -0500 "Charles"
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This is a moderately priced spectrum analyzer covering 9 kHz to 1.5 Ghz with
a tracking generator option.

If you do RF, check it out.

No affiliation with Rigol. None. Nada.

No thanks. For a little more money ($3K) I could get an Agilent 8562A good
to 22GHz.

So $3K is just a little more money than $1,295 ?

Nice to know your reference...

In addition to what Michael said; When and if something goes wrong with
the HP, I have the complete set of service manuals with component level
information - I can fix it myself. Parts are plentiful for the HP as well.
What about the Rigol?

By the time your Rigol breaks down, Ebay will be swamped with 'for
parts' units.


All needing the same parts, or they wouldn't be on Ebay.

Probably. I wouldn't be surprised if it consists of 1 or 2 circuit boards
loaded with all sorts of chips that cannot be removed economically (BGA,
etc.) by your average tech. And with no service data, you likely wouldn't
be able to figure out what needed replacing anyway.


Very few can troubleshoot something like that, unless they have piles
of the same dead model, and excel in logical troubleshooting. I would
think it would be well under 1% of all electronics techs who would be
succesful.