Thursday, 12 of October of 2006

It turns your Palm TX into an analyzer of RF phantoms

I have always thought that the power of calculation and other advantages of our PDA are undervalued. If you are a professional who needs to make measurements of electromagnetic field, and you have a Palm TX, you can olvidarte of the heavy portable analyzers, and to buy the small PSA1301T of the company Thurlby Thandar Instruments. As it is seen in the photo, the TX goes mounted within him, and the set works like a portable analyzer of phantoms.

The TX working like analyzer of phantoms
The TX working like analyzer of phantoms

In order to know that he is an analyzer of phantoms, we see what the Wikipedia says:

It is an electronic instrument that allows to visualize in a screen the spectral components of the present signals in the entrances. In the axis of ordinates the level in dB of the spectral content of the signal usually appears in a logarithmic scale. In the X-axis the frequency imagines, in a scale that is function of the temporary separation and the number of captured samples.

For that they have remained just as before, they only must think about an oscilloscope, an apparatus that simply draws the form of an electrical signal. Some will even have used sometimes the option to see the signal in the dominion of the frequency (instead of in the dominion of the time), to analyze the different components (like the animations of the WinAmp when it sounds music, to put an example that we know all). Then this apparatus does that same one, but measuring the signals that propagate by the air, not by a cable, like for example the generated ones by communications equipment, electrical equipment of power, etc.

The price is $1450 dollars, and the truth seeing the prices of these apparatuses seems quite cheap, although clearly, everything depends on the quality that it really has. Although as they comment, when using the PDA the advantages is multiple: operation by touch screen, capacity to store the graphical measures in memory (and captures), screen of hi-res, consumption very under (up to 4 hours of autonomy), etc.

It detects signals in a rank of frequencies that goes from 150 kHz to 1,3 GHz, 97 xs measure 70 xs 47 mm, and weigh 500 grams less than, the other engineering datas are possible to be consulted in this page. Without a doubt an option to consider for the professionals who need to use this class of instrumentation.


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