

Looking for sources of RF noise or interference.Ĥ. TV band monitoring and trap tuning (hopefully only a couple of times with the tuning)ģ.

The question is, do I really need all of that?Ģ. The Avcom big plusses are it's the only American made unit and it has a LCD display, but the cost is very close to the 827 which appears to blow away the 37XP, especially only going down to 75 kHz RBW.īetween the two major types of SAs' 'Swept' and 'FFT' (Fast Fourier Transform), each has it's advantages and disadvantages, but from my reading the FFT is the better choice. The B&K has a TG, but the rest of the specs seem shortchanged to me especially the very limited 20kHz & 800 kHz "IF Bandwidth" (RBW). I am afraid I would outgrow the unit too fast finding what it can't do. The Protek 3201, while the price is nice, doesn't seem a whole lot better than the SLM with a very linited display I already own and it just doesn't offer any room to grow into. There is a 5 day return, no restocking fee offer. I have the limited Service Manual (from MCM Electronics, no less). Realistically, I'm leaning towards the Instek GSP-810 for $1675. I don't know just how much that will change in the future (trying to make the purchase 'furture proof'). The clear choice if $$ wasn't a object would be the Instek-827 w/ 2.7GHz coverage and a LCD display, but I can't seem to justify spending that much they way I plan on using it at this point in time.

Instek GSP-827 a FFT Analyzer under $3570 Protek 7830 $2600 (not available yet and no manual):Īvcom PSA-37XP $3230 (no link for the manual) The choices in ascending price and links for the spec sheet & owners manual (if available)
