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My new HP 8341A signal generator

October 4, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

My employer wanted to throw away a HP 8341A signal generator. This is a 10 MHz to 20 GHz sweep generator! Of course I rescued that unit from trash….

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RF stuff

Design of a coaxial cavity filter

September 15, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

Here I show how I designed a coaxial cavity bandpass filter. The method of Dishal is employed, using the k and q values. This was part of my Master’s Thesis, but here it is explained in more detail.

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Master Thesis & some other RF stuff

September 13, 2017 tobias 2 Comments

Here you can find my Master’s Thesisย  ๐Ÿ˜€ Have fun reading.

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Measurement equipment

HP 4195A firmware dump

June 4, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

I recently decided to calibrate my HP 4195A network/spectrum analyser. While I had the device open, I also dumped the firmware (28 EPROMS!)

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RF stuff

Self-made N calibration kit

May 31, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

Recently I needed a N type calibration kit. We don’t have one at work, but since I already have gained some experience with building a SMA calibration kit, I decided to make my own N kit!

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Homebrew SMA calibration kit

May 23, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

I have a good old HP 8753C vector network analyser in my shack, however, I miss a proper SOLT calibration kit. Here is how I built my own calibration kit and made a model for the 8753C.

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Cavity Oscillators

May 23, 2017 tobias 2 Comments

In the service manual of the HP 8753C, I read something about a cavity oscillator which is used in this instrument. Later, I read some article in the HP Journal, also about cavity oscillators. Time to build my own!

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Repair of a HP 4195A network analyser

May 20, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

At a former employer, they threw away a HP 4195A network analyser. The reason was because it had some problems with its internal source. I kept the unit for a few years and always was afraid of opening it and repairing it because I thought the potential to further damage it was too high. But now I tried to repair it and it worked ๐Ÿ™‚

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Repair of a HP 8753C network analyser

May 20, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

A few years ago, I bought a HP 8753C network analyser. The cool thing is: it has options 06 (6 GHz operation) and 02 (time domain). Unfortunately, recently it showed an annoying error message.

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Mathematics

Fractals with Matlab (or Octave)

May 16, 2017 tobias Leave a comment

Just for fun I tested whether it is possible to draw a fractal with Matlab. (Yes, it is, no big surprise ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

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