Six Weeks of Troubleshooting...I think I found it!

[Chris K]

The widest sweep span it’ll do if I ask it to do 100ms sweeps is 50KHz. I pretty sure somewhere in the documentation for this it gave center frequency ranges in increments of 20MHz. I think it said from 16 to 30 or so MHz the fastest it would sweep is half a second. I have no idea why that would be the case. The fastest it would do a 1MHz sweep around a 21.25 CF was 1 per second. That’s as fast as it could go. If I lowered it below a second I got an error saying the sweep interval was too small for the frequency. Looks like my future lies in the older HP generator/marker and the effectiveness of my replacing the chip. If the beast can’t sweep it’s gone. My equipment winning streak continues!