[Premium-Rx] R&S ESMC control software

[George Georgevits]

Hi Jos,

I have several items of test equipment (network analyser, signal generator,
power meter etc.) which I control via GPIB. I have written my own software
using Free Pascal running under DOS. However, my software is written to
drive an HP 27209 or HP 82335 ISA GPIB card. I expect this would work under
Windows 7 in a DOS window.

The advantages are:

.	relatively easy to write software for new equipment provided the
instruction set for the equipment is available.
.	works well and fast, making data capture to the PC easy
.	easy to troubleshoot, debug and modify the software, as required
.	can simultaneously control a number of items of equipment using the GPIB
as a network
.	HP ISA GPIB cards are cheap on ePay

The disadvantages are:

.	you have to be able to program in Free Pascal (or Turbo Pascal, or
something similar), but it is free to download and not too difficult to
learn
.	PC's with ISA bus slots are becoming hard to find these days
.	you need to master the HP card driver software (but I have these and know
how to use them)

Hope this helps.

Regards
George Georgevits
VK2KGG

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> Hello All, I'm Jos from the Netherlands.I'm owning now for some
> months a Rohde and Schwarz ESMC vhf/uhf receiver (20-1300Mhz)
> including the ssb option, without the frontpannel and a ieee488
> port.But i cant find any were a program to control the
> receiver.Is there some one who could help me with control
> software for this receiver that would run under windows7I'm not a
> computer wiz so programming is not my stuff, i did mannage to set
> the receiver to 1 freq and mode via a rs232 to ieee488 converter
> and the mennomics field in the W&J RCS32 software, but this is
> not the way to work.Hope there is some one out there who would
> know a solution to give the RX a  live back 73' From The
> NetherlandsJos
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