[Premium-Rx] receivers with 20Mhz IF?

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Eugene:

You might use the 21.4 MHz output that's common on many receivers if the 
bandwidth on the SA 20 MHz port is wide enough.

73,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
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Eugene Hertz wrote:

> Ok, here's one I know you will all laugh at me on.  I came across an old 
> HP spectrum analyzer, specifically, 851B display and an 8551B RF 
> section. For those of you fortunate to have never seen one, here's a 
> picture. http://www.fairradio.com/hp-851b.html
> 
> It weighs about as much as my 1961 MGA.  So I started thinking about 
> what I could use this for. Asking around on the HP/Agilent list, I found 
> out that the 851B Display takes an IF input of 20Mhz.  Asking around 
> further I discovered that I could not easily locate a more modern RF 
> section (at say 1/10 the size) because the 20Mhz IF was abandoned by HP.
> 
> So I got ta thinkin.  Are there any receivers that use 20Mhz as IF 
> output? I thought the display section alone could make for a neat 
> panadapter/sdu.
> 
> (Ok, you can stop laughing now!)
> Eugene