One of the most useful pieces of test gear to become generally available to the average broadcast engineer in the last 20 years or so is the spectrum analyzer. This electronic tool, while still rather ...

Today's spectrum analyzers aren't your father's instruments. Thanks to lots of embedded processing power, digital signal processing (DSP), and new analog front-end circuitry, the latest round of ...

Battery powered and nomadic RF spectrum analyzers now give you spectral views in the field—at radio sites and even atop towers. Many of the latest portables also handshake with bench-bound PCs, too.

Measuring phase noise with a spectrum analyzer. The primary advantage of dedicated phase-noise analyzers. The cross-correlation method. Using a spectrum analyzer is the oldest, most straightforward, ...

Let’s say a corporate engineer or a consultant is coming to your station to diagnose and repair a problem using an RF spectrum analyzer. This would be a great time to schedule a meeting with your ...

Like most modern radio communications devices, wireless local-area networks (WLANs), RFID tags, and 3G cellular systems rely on complex modulations that require specialized signal-analysis ...