[Elecraft] OT: Test Equipment

[Don Wilhelm]

Lee,

Assuming you want quality without a lot of expense,  I would wait until 
an HP 8640B shows up.  500 kHz to 512 MHz CW or AM (some have FM 
capabilities).  They are well shielded and the output attenuator is 
calibrated - goes from +20 dBm to -130 on the fixed attenuator and can 
be reduced to -140 dBm.
There is some warmup drift  that lasts for as much as 2 hours, but they 
do settle down to a very stable frequency.

There may be newer signal generators that have the same performance 
specs, but this is an old favorite of many.  The only major problem I 
know about is reports of broken gears - mine does not suffer from that 
problem (yet).

73,
Don W3FPR

Lee Buller wrote:
>
> If I were to buy a RF signal generator off of Ebay....what is a good 
> one to buy?  I don't want a WWII surplus RF signal generator and do 
> not want the 10,000 dollar one either.  I would like to have a 
> transistor RF signal generator so that kind of leaves out the old 
> Heaths and Eicos.
>
> Does this august body of homebrew swamis have any suggestions?
>
> Lee - K0WA
>
>
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