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What the heck?
- Thread starter kaos513
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Welcome to the world of top-notch commercial service equipment. Seriously. With a bandwidth of 2 HERTZ to 67 GIGAHERTZ this isn't something any CBer or ham would ever have. Think commercial satellite or military or aerospace applications. A quick search showed that you can rent it for a much more reasonable 8-11 thousand dollars a MONTH depending on how it is configured.
Rhode & Schwarz arguably make the best high end test equipment on the planet. They know that cutting edge tech companies require the kind of specifications that only top end gear can provide. R&S gets a piece of their action by selling it at those prices knowing their clients can and will have to use their gear. Just imagine what kind of gear that R&S must use to test their gear before they ship it out after QC. Constant and rigorous re-calibration - no doubt.
That's right Robb. Anybody that can afford R$S service equipment knows they are getting the best of the best. At one time R&S even made antennas for commercial shortwave and military use. The navy radio station near my place has three HUGE R&S rotatable log periodic arrays and several fixed position wide band vertical arrays. Not sure who made the massive inverted cone LF antenna.
Didn't know that they made antennas too - woof. Be interesting to see how they engineered the parts of the antenna that would take the hit in the environment. Lesser antenna companies would do well getting some pointers on how to re-engineer their antennas. Crazy specs too - no doubt. Ratings of -150C to 200C for the insulators, wind ratings off the hook, and efficiency/design par excellent.
Wonder what AMD or Intel uses for test equipment on IC production? IIRC, aren't there a couple of Japanese test gear companies that also compete in that same high-end market field?
I don't think they have made the HUGE point-to-point HF fixed curtain arrays for quite some time. I used to have an R&S catalogue that had test gear, receivers, and antennas in it but I think I threw it out many years ago when I was cleaning up some stuff from my previous life. They do however continue to make rotatable LPDA's and VHF/UHF antennas.
https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/ca/pr...tennas/pg_communications-antennas_229503.html
Would I ever be able to afford 1? Hahahaha... never. Would I kick it out of bed for eating crackers if It was giving to me? Also never! LOL All seriousness, my head would explode by page 2 of the manual.....
Only goes to 50 GHz. Not to 67.
So, $170,000 minus $42,000 is $128,000 difference.
Works out to about $7500 per GHz to go from 50 to 67.
Or seven and a half bucks per MHz. Doesn't sound so bad figured that way.
73
So, $170,000 minus $42,000 is $128,000 difference.
Works out to about $7500 per GHz to go from 50 to 67.
Or seven and a half bucks per MHz. Doesn't sound so bad figured that way.
73
