We all love our wireless devices. We want more features, higher data rates, and improved range. These demands, in turn, require advanced digital protocols. Meanwhile, the number of signal sources is ...

Back in the 1960s, when I started working in radio broadcast engineering, an oscilloscope was my “eye” on what was happening with equipment. That tool served me well and is still in daily use in my ...

One of the most useful pieces of test gear to become generally available to the average broadcast engineer in the last 20 years or so is the spectrum analyzer. This electronic tool, while still rather ...

Today's spectrum analyzers aren't your father's instruments. Thanks to lots of embedded processing power, digital signal processing (DSP), and new analog front-end circuitry, the latest round of ...

For a long time, spectrum analyzers and scanning receivers have been widely used in EMI laboratories. The technical capabilities of these instruments are similar to those of a classic stepped EMI ...

EE’s electronic test instrument coverage achieved critical mass in the mid-1980s, including a spectrum analyzer story in the August 1986 issue and subsequent August issues into the 1990s and beyond.

No audio available for this content. Photo: ThinkRF ThinkRF Corp., a software-defined spectrum analysis solution provider, has released the ThinkRF R5700 Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer with GNSS. Unlike ...

Having a scope in a home lab used to be a real luxury, but these days, its fairly common for the home gamer to have a sophisticated storage scope (or two) hanging around. Dedicated spectrum analyzers ...

A hardware device or software used to examine the frequency and power components of a signal. It provides more information than an oscilloscope, because it can display the signals over a range of ...

Radio seems to be an unofficial theme for The Hackaday Prize, with a few wireless frameworks for microcontrollers and software defined radios making their way into the quarterfinal selection.