Tektronix RSA603A USB Spectrum Analyzer
The Tektronix RSA603A USB Spectrum Analyzer is designed for high-performance portable spectrum analysis in a robust, battery-powered package. Ideal for professionals who demand accuracy in challenging environments, this versatile tool meets a variety of analysis needs.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Frequency Range: 9 kHz to 3.0 GHz, accommodating a wide array of analysis requirements.
- Acquisition Bandwidth: 40 MHz, facilitating real-time analysis crucial for capturing transients and performing vector analysis.
- Integrated GPS Receiver: Standard GPS/GLONASS/Beidou functionality allows for effective mapping and location tracking.
- Optional Tracking Generator: For comprehensive gain/loss, antenna, and cable measurements, enhancing your analytical capabilities.
- Streaming Capture: Features long-term event recording and playback, enabling detailed analysis over extended periods.
- Rugged Design: Complies with Mil-Std 28800 Class 2 specifications, ensuring reliable operation in harsh environmental conditions.
- Extended Field Operations: Equipped with an internal battery for prolonged usage in the field.
- SignalVu-PC Software: Provides real-time signal processing with DPX Spectrum and Spectrogram views, expediting transient and interference detection.
- High Sensitivity: Minimum signal duration of 100 µsec with a 100% probability of intercept guarantees that problems are detected the first time, every time.
- Custom Development: An application programming interface (API) is included, allowing for the creation of tailored software solutions.
- Comprehensive Accessories: Comes with various accessories such as tablet PCs, calibration kits, adapters, and phase-stable cables, offering an all-encompassing field solution for interference hunting and transmitter maintenance.
The Tektronix RSA603A is engineered to deliver real-time spectrum analysis, essential for spectrum managers, interference hunters, and network maintenance professionals. Its USB-based RF spectrum analyzer captures broad 40 MHz bandwidths with impressive fidelity, even in demanding conditions. With 70 dB dynamic range, all signals of interest are examined with utmost confidence.
Lightweight in design, the USB form factor shifts the instrument's weight to allow for effective use of a portable Windows tablet or laptop, making it easier to move swiftly and efficiently in the field.
The optional tracking generator adds versatility with quick tests of filters, duplexers, and other network elements, while measurements for cable and antenna metrics like VSWR, return loss, and distance to fault can be integrated as needed.
Enhanced by SignalVu-PC, this tool provides deep analytical capabilities traditionally unavailable in high-performance, battery-operated solutions. The powerful software allows for comprehensive real-time processing, minimizing hardware costs and maximizing functionality.
For professionals seeking programmatic access to the instrument, both the SignalVu-PC programmatic interface and included API offer a rich set of commands and measurements to support advanced analysis and applications.
