The case is really nice. It’s just flat sheets which are painted and connected together with the metal blocks.
Engineering is excellent. When you screw it together it fits ridiculously well. Am very impressed with quality. I genuinely wish they made test gear like it.
LOL... I was looking at that
"Manhattan-Style Enclosure Construction" and thinking how much stronger and better heat-dissipation it could be if made from some of the crazy cheap heavy-wall industrial anodized aluminum extrusion coming from Tiawan and China nowadays.
Should be easy to make it a 100% drop-in substitution, and probably also less expensive than small-order runs of that painted aluminum plate, especially if it is, as it appears, epoxy-coated.
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Yeah, I assume the first one. Some sellers imply that there are 2018 and 2019 versions of it. Is that true? All the photos I've seen are dated 2012 (electrolytic caps) or 2016.
Yes I think the 2016 is latest version.I also saw this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/5M-1-5GHz-RF-Noise-Source-Signal-Generator-Spectrometer-Tracking-Source/132179263729
Interesting, I wonder if it really do +-0.5dBm flatness.
Yeah, all the ones I saw were marked 2016 Noise (or
Nose ![Roll Eyes ::)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif.pagespeed.ce.XcUK202Yqt.gif)
) Source.
That second one does make some pretty impressive claims... but I dunno that I feel it is 8x better. Maybe 4x better, which would reflect the typical cost of the first one with a cheap extrusion enclosure. MAYBE.
There's also this one that supposedly is 1 – 3500 MHz instead of a couple hundred K to ~1.5 GHz. https://www.ebay.com/itm/SMA-noise-source-Simple-spectrum-external-tracking-source-Analyzer-dc-12v/282102993483
![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gHIAAOSwxMRbnIMQ/s-l1600.jpg)
Judging by the SMA location, it's probably the one inside the enclosure on this model.
eBay auction: #173532270063
...they have this Pokemon Starter Box Set... a whole row of them mispriced for $13, and it's the latest release.
I go up to the cashier and she says they're supposed to be $41.99. I show her a pic of the shelf, and she goes and gets a floor manager, who says he can't authorize it for that price, but he can do it for $20....
Sooo...Wally World floor managers can give you 50% off. ![Evil >:D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xevil.gif.pagespeed.ic.tdrs7Uj5gu.png)
Yeah... I think that upper management could've actually authorized the sale at the mismarked price; but my gut reaction was that if I tried to press the issue, they could claim that I (or some other customer) put them in the wrong spot and say no to the whole deal. Which, if I were that much of a PITA as to make somebody go drag one of them down there, they would be much more inclined to do. So I took the $22 off and bolted out the door before they changed their minds.
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I felt a little remorse after I'd stalked the aisles churlishly snorting annoyance like fire because the one thing I was looking for... girls' skivvies... was hidden away in a little section as far as possible from the main clothing, and bisected by the Shoe Dept. And being a guy, I wasn't sure just looking at her... so I needed to measure her waist against the sizing chart once I found them... and so I went halfway across the store back to the dressing rooms to ask for a measure... and the daft girl there goes "Oh, we don't have any of those. They took them and never brought them back..." How is that an excuse for not having the one basic tool of your job? Just grab a new one and "Store Use" it for eff's sake...
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And then there Men's skivvies... if I ever meet the marketing fuckbubble that dreamed up Boxer-Briefs, I'm gonna roshambo him so hard he sneezes pubes for a week. The worst aspects of BOTH, and of course they take the shelf space out of BOXERS stock, so I can NEVER find them in my size.
![Rant :rant:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/rant.gif.pagespeed.ce.koOB_HE-VX.gif)
So okay... maybe a little remorse... maybe. But the more I think about how little Wally World cares about wasting my time every fucking day, the more I feel like that discount is just a well-deserved "asshole tax".
mnem
*churlish for hire*