Jason Chonko from Siglent America is joined by Nick KN6NK to give an in-depth intorudction to spectrum analyzers.  We talk about the specs, features, and engineering that make up this handy piece of frequency-domain test equipment.  We also explore several common spectrum analyzer uses such as filter and cavity tuning as well as radio purity evaluation.

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Siglent America - https://www.siglentamerica.com/

Siglent SSA3000X Series Spectrum Analyzers - https://www.siglentamerica.com/spectrum-analyzers/

EEVBlog Interview with Eric Qin Founder and CEO of Siglent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9M397sUkEA

Spectrum Analyzer Do’s and Don’ts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6P-R0C9ro0

Sweeping an Antenna for Return Loss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50qybdiLuk

LXI Tools https://github.com/lxi-tools/lxi-tools

​SSA3021X/SSA3032X reviews:
EEVBlog review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLciTsjGZg  teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fr_otW0q4
Block diagram in teardown at 27:05 https://youtu.be/-8fr_otW0q4?t=27m5s
The Signal Path http://thesignalpath.com/blogs/2017/09/20/siglent-ssa3032x-9khz-3-2ghz-spectrum-analyzer-tg-review-teardown-experiment/

​One final piece of content from the 2018 Hamvention.  Every year, the QRP Amateur Radio Club International hosts a QRP conference called Four Days in May that proceeds Hamvention.  The event is home to a large collection of amateurs passionate about low power operation and building their own radios. George attended the event on Thursday and was able to capture talks by Hans Summers G0UPL of QRP-Labs fame and Dr. Jack Purdum W8TEE, famous in the BITX40 community.  Hans talks about the development of his smash hit new transceiver kit, the QCX and Jack talks to us about homebrewing. Special thanks to QRP ARCI President Preston Douglas WJ2V for allowing us to record these great talks.

If you would like more information about QRP ARCI or are interested in joining, please visit http://www.qrparci.org/

We have launched the all new http://www.HamRadioWorkbench.com/ !  This includes our new
Online Store where you can order Ham Radio Workbench projects that are currently in production.  You can also find documentation for previous projects, an archive of our podcast episodes, and a new Blog where George and Jeremy will post articles.

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Hans Summers G0UPL

• QRP-Labs - https://qrp-labs.com/
• Hans’ personal site - http://hanssummers.com/
• Presentation and thoughts from FDIM - http://www.qrp-labs.com/dayton2018.html

Dr. Jack Purdum W8TEE

• Co-author “Arudino Projects for Amateur Radio” - https://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Projects-Amateur-Radio-Purdum-ebook/dp/B00O2A7I5O
• The JackAl board for the uBITX - https://ubitx.net/2018/05/21/jackal-is-here/
• Jack’s presentation from FDIM - http://traffic.libsyn.com/workbench/W8TEE-FDIM-2018-Homebrewing-Radio-Gear.odp.pdf

Adafruit ADABox - https://www.adafruit.com/adabox/

ZUMSpot Digital Voice Radio Hotspot - https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015993

MMDVM Github - https://github.com/g4klx/MMDVM

Pi-Star - https://www.pistar.uk/

Leo Bodnar Mini GPSDO - http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=301

Time Nuts - http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

Uputronics Raspberry Pi uBLOX GPS Module - https://v3.airspy.us/product/upu-rpigps/

KF7IJZ’s Overview of the new Hytera AR482G - the commercial gradio DMR Radio for Amateurs - https://youtu.be/igEXMLJ0QZY

Precision Frequency References with Dr. Frank M Howell K4FMH -https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/podcast/precision-frequency-references

Airspy R2 with 10MHz frequency Input - https://v3.airspy.us/product/a-airspy/

Airspy Groups.io - https://airspy.groups.io/g/main/topics

​FlexRadio 6400 - http://www.flexradio.com/amateur-products/flex-6000-signature-series/flex-6400/