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 software
    • Digilent Analog Discovery 3 / Waveforms & LabVIEW
    • NanoVNA-H4 Vector Network Analyzer
    • TinySA-Ultra ZS405 RF Spectrum Analyzer
    • TinyGTC ZTC412 GPS-DO, Counter, Timer, Clock Source
    • Tektronix TDS3012 scope / NI-488 GPIB USB / LabVIEW
    • Copper Mountain Technology R54 Vector Impedance Probe
  • 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, noise sources, attenuators, amplifiers, adapters, terminations, couplers, splitters, fixtures, and more…

… ...and it all fits into two medium totes when not in use.