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HP8566B programming
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| gl.genovesi@gsd.it 2006-02-02, 11:21 am |
| Hi to all,
I have an EMI receiver HP8566B opt 462 with preselector.
I want to use it as an EMI receiver, and I want to insert limit lines,
correction factors, change units amplitudes....
Has someone some hints in order to perform such procedures?
I looked at the programming manual but there is no example of that.
Thanks
Gian Luca
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| Ed Price 2006-08-05, 3:25 am |
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<gl.genovesi@gsd.it> wrote in message
news:1138892925.777233.150020@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi to all,
> I have an EMI receiver HP8566B opt 462 with preselector.
> I want to use it as an EMI receiver, and I want to insert limit lines,
> correction factors, change units amplitudes....
> Has someone some hints in order to perform such procedures?
> I looked at the programming manual but there is no example of that.
>
> Thanks
> Gian Luca
>
HP sold some rather expensive software for controlling an 8566B (and
preselector). But HP is now out of that market, and the hardware & software
is beyond their support.
In the HP scheme, you used a remote computer to talk to (control) the
preselector over the IEEE-488 bus. The preselector then passed on commands
to the 8566B over a second (private) IEEE-488 bus. Data was downloaded from
the 8566B to the preselector, and then to the computer.
BTW, your 8566B has been modified to have impulse bandwidths that are in
accordance with MIL-STD-461 (all resolution bandwidths are actually just a
bit wider than stated).
The most flexible way would be for you to write code to command acquisition
of data through the 8566B/preselector, then move it to your computer where
you can add all correction factors and display the results against the
standard limits.
There IS a way to enter a limit line from the front keyboard. A few years
ago, I ran a test to verify the filter shapes in the Quasi-Peak adapter.
This test placed high & low no-go limits on the screen while you ran the
test. The down side is that it required several hundred keystrokes to enter
this, and they all had to be perfect (no editor available). And it could not
be stored.
If you want further info, I might still have a copy of that test sequence.
Let me know if you want it.
--
Ed
WB6WSN
El Cajon, CA USA
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