{"id":2074,"date":"2011-03-07T19:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2014-08-28T17:05:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:05:21","slug":"meet-the-handheld-spectrum-analyzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/07\/meet-the-handheld-spectrum-analyzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Handheld Spectrum Analyzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been more than half a year we help with this handheld spectrum analyzer with Arocholl. The process is much more complicate for a nearly complete product. We learned a lot from Arocholl&#8217;s detail oriented attitude and professional engineering efforts. It&#8217;s an honor to present &#8220;RF Explore&#8221; beta batch to community:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As wireless communication devices grows in use everywhere, so it does the need to monitor, test and diagnose them.<\/p>\n<p>RF Explorer is an extremely affordable Handheld\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectrum_analyzer\" target=\"_blank\">Spectrum Analyzer<\/a> designed from scratch to be a sort of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss_Army_knife\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss Army Knife<\/a> for the specific needs of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISM_band\" target=\"_blank\">ISM band<\/a> digital communication. \uff08from Arocholl&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/micro.arocholl.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=48:introducing-rf-explorer&amp;catid=40:article&amp;Itemid=61\">introduction<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rrf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seeedstudio.com\/depot\/images\/product\/rfex1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RF Explorer currently supported workflows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitor continuous wave (CW) and temporary transmissions in specific ISM band.<\/li>\n<li>Detect whether a device is transmitting in the expected frequency and with expected power<\/li>\n<li>Check whether an antenna or amplifier change makes a difference in power, orientation and noise<\/li>\n<li>Detect band occupancy to move your gadget to a different channel<\/li>\n<li>Works as RF Generator to transmit pure RF tone from 0dB to +20dB so you can test your RF link in seconds<\/li>\n<li>Works completely automatic so you do not need to be an expert to use it. It will resolve RBW, Sweep time, for you.<\/li>\n<li>Offer spectrum data in Normal, Average, Peak Maximum calculator modes<\/li>\n<li>Open source PC client software, unlimited capture and post-processing storage<\/li>\n<li>Optimized for worldwide ISM bands: 433Mhz, 868Mhz or 915Mhz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>RF Explorer future extensions<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Transmission test tones in OOK and FSK<\/li>\n<li>Digital transmission decoding and packet sniffing for OOK and FSK, including Manchester code support<\/li>\n<li>Logging features for multi-hour transmission monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Frequency counter<\/li>\n<li>Automatic peak detection<\/li>\n<li>Storage for up to 5 screenshots in internal memory<\/li>\n<li>Expansion modules for additional ISM band support, including popular 2.4Ghz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For an example of how easy and powerful RF Explorer is in a real use case, check this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/micro.arocholl.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=53:tutorial-how-to-use-rf-explorer-to-monitor-a-rfbee&amp;catid=40:article&amp;Itemid=64\">tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Application:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/micro.arocholl.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=53:tutorial-how-to-use-rf-explorer-to-monitor-a-rfbee&amp;catid=40:article&amp;Itemid=61\">RFBee monitored by RF Explorer<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"R\" src=\"http:\/\/micro.arocholl.com\/images\/stories\/RFExplorer\/RFBeeTutorial\/RFE_1_04_16_8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"d\" src=\"http:\/\/micro.arocholl.com\/images\/stories\/RFExplorer\/RFBeeTutorial\/Img_4467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been more than half a year we help with this handheld spectrum analyzer with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,374],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-rf","tag-rf-explorer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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