Test Equipment

Have enjoyed working with and designing/repairing test equipment for many years…

Home laboratory photo below is from 1998, showing large individual function and dedicated use test equipment on large racks behind the work table.

Photo of home test lab from 5/9/1998 showing large and tall rack of test equipment with a table in front where a Wavetek service monitor is open and being repaired. Soldering equipment and test leads are present.

Today’s test equipment is smaller and generally smarter…

  • USB-based/controlled for use with dedicated WIN11 PC
    • ADALM-PLUTO TX/RX Software Defined Radio (SDR) / SATSAGEN SW
    • Digilent Analog Discovery 3 / Waveforms & LabVIEW
    • NanoVNA H4 Vector Network Analyzer
    • TinySA Ultra RF Spectrum Analyzer
    • Tektronix TDS3012 scope / NI-488 GPIB USB / LabVIEW
  • Support Items
    • Global Specialties LCR-58 Tweezer LCR meter with ESR
    • Agilent/HP 8502A Transmission/Reflection Test Set
    • RF Calibration Kits (N, SMA, APC-3.5)
    • Power supplies, test leads, current probes, adapters, terminations, couplers, pads, splitters, and more…

… ...and it all fits into one medium box when not in use.