BitScope Mini

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ka1tdq:
This just arrived today and I couldn't believe how small it was. This is an oscilloscope for the computer. I bought the optional 2-channel BNC plug-in adapter. My goal was to be able to monitor my drain waveforms while transmitting rather than having a clunky oscope sitting on the desk.

The good thing about this company is that they support Windows, Mac and Linux software packages. I was able to load the Mac and Ubuntu (Linux) versions of the software without any problems. I'm sure Windows would be just as easy.

Total cost was $325 shipped from Australia and it got here really quick!

Jon

KA3EKH:
The last ten years I have been only using digital scopes and spectrum analyzers, biggest complain I have with a lot of the Tektronix scopes is that you have to do things like use the driving audio source as an external trigger when looking at things like AM modulation. Without a good external trigger source the A to D converters get wonky displaying complex waveforms, looking at sine, square and digital pulses is all good but modulated RF can be tricky. The old vacuum tube bottles never had that issue but today digital is the “state of the art”.
The other thing I just can’t seam to wrap my head around is why when I look at AM and sideband signals on a SDR they appear so much cleaner then a spectrum analyzers? I can do things like look at occupied bandwidth for a AM broadcast station on a SDR and clearly see the effects or fall off of the NRSC filter as a sharp drop that looks like what it supposed to but never such a clean trace on a regular spectrum analyzer. I have a HP ESA-1500 that’s clean but still don’t display things like two tone SSB signals as well as a Flex.

nq5t:
Looks like a really interesting product.  Unfortunately, they don't seem to have 64-bit Mac software available.  32-bit versions won't run on the latest macOS releases.

I dropped them an email inquiring about it.

ka1tdq:
I actually did question them about their software packages before I bought it because it looked really outdated and limited. They're going to release new versions within a couple weeks, but did give me a trial version to run in the meantime for Mac.

I'm not a software kind of guy, so what I just said is the limit of my knowledge with that stuff. All I care about is seeing simple waveforms around 4 MHz. If it works, hooray!

Jon

nq5t:
Quote from: ka1tdq on August 05, 2020, 11:43:17 PM

I actually did question them about their software packages before I bought it because it looked really outdated and limited. They're going to release new versions within a couple weeks, but did give me a trial version to run in the meantime for Mac. Jon


Thanks.  I just got a response from them also, with links to the betas for 64-bit macOS.  And they did say production versions should be available at the end of the month. 

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