To the spectrum analyser specialist

[eurofox]

Hello,

Anritsu MS610A Spectrum Analyzer

What do you think about this SA?
Is it a valuable investment as a general SA?
If not it will be a Rigol

eurofox

[Mr Simpleton]

All comes down to money... if the MS610A is >$400 it's easy, go RIGOL!

Anritsu seems to be a very basic SA, not even phase locked. RBW starts at 1kHz. No way to save traces. Seems to be very basic marker function too.

Come to think about it, not sure I would even spend 400 on this instrument.....

I bet the Rigol is soo much more fun to use!

[Electro Fan]

All comes down to money... if the MS610A is >$400 it's easy, go RIGOL!

Anritsu seems to be a very basic SA, not even phase locked. RBW starts at 1kHz. No way to save traces. Seems to be very basic marker function too.

Come to think about it, not sure I would even spend 400 on this instrument.....

I bet the Rigol is soo much more fun to use!

I think Rigol makes very good products and offers excellent value, but what model Rigol spectrum analyzer can you get for anywhere near $400?

[Mr Simpleton]

What I'm trying to say is that the only reason for getting the Anritsu would be a rock-bottom price, or get the new $1200 Rigol.
Performance wice the Rigol wins easy.

[PA4TIM]

A friendof mine has a Hameg 3GHz SA with TG and compared that before buying with a Rigol. So he knows both. He said the Rigol was not bad but the Hameg was a whole class better.
I have a Tek 2710 and 2712. They are 9kHz to 1800 MHz. I love them. Not as much noise as the Rigol 1,5GHz and the great thing about them is they are hybrids. You can use them analog and digital. Store 4 traces, waterfall and and several marker options.
Two of my vna's have a SA function but that is rather low performance, noisefloor is -100dBm or I must be very patience and choose a very narrow filter then I can get 125 dBm . Build two SA's myself (0-500 MHz) and have owned several others (like a 1 GHz portable digital TekTek and an analog HP)

When I'm alinging a transmitter or oscillato etc, I use it in analog mode because the speed. I wanty to peak a signal reakl time and not turn a bit, wait 2 seconds and then see I have turned to far.

We should do a compare in a topic. Just show the same screenshots for every SA, for instance a -30dBm  100 MHz signal and then something like a 100 kHz, 10 kHz and 1 kHz resolution bandthwidth and also the most narrow RBW available that will show how low the noisefloor for several SA's is. The add data like sweeptime etc.

[olsenn]

I think Rigol makes very good products and offers excellent value, but what model Rigol spectrum analyzer can you get for anywhere near $400?

Go big or go home!

[Electro Fan]

A friendof mine has a Hameg 3GHz SA with TG and compared that before buying with a Rigol. So he knows both. He said the Rigol was not bad but the Hameg was a whole class better.
I have a Tek 2710 and 2712. They are 9kHz to 1800 MHz. I love them. Not as much noise as the Rigol 1,5GHz and the great thing about them is they are hybrids. You can use them analog and digital. Store 4 traces, waterfall and and several marker options.
Two of my vna's have a SA function but that is rather low performance, noisefloor is -100dBm or I must be very patience and choose a very narrow filter then I can get 125 dBm . Build two SA's myself (0-500 MHz) and have owned several others (like a 1 GHz portable digital TekTek and an analog HP)

When I'm alinging a transmitter or oscillato etc, I use it in analog mode because the speed. I wanty to peak a signal reakl time and not turn a bit, wait 2 seconds and then see I have turned to far.

We should do a compare in a topic. Just show the same screenshots for every SA, for instance a -30dBm  100 MHz signal and then something like a 100 kHz, 10 kHz and 1 kHz resolution bandthwidth and also the most narrow RBW available that will show how low the noisefloor for several SA's is. The add data like sweeptime etc.

That would be cool.

[Electro Fan]

I think Rigol makes very good products and offers excellent value, but what model Rigol spectrum analyzer can you get for anywhere near $400?

Go big or go home!

Roger that, just didn't want to think I was missing a $400 solution to what looks like a $1295 or better type of investment.