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Old 13th Apr 2021, 8:49 pm   #20
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Default Re: Which signal generator?

The total price starts to creep up a lot if you buy the synchroniser as well. If you want a synthesised/locked output then I think it would be better to pay a bit more and buy a Marconi 2022 sig gen. Prices for these vary a lot but scruffy examples sometimes turn up for under £200.

I've not used a 2016 but I do have a 10MHz - 520MHz Marconi TF2015 here and it is stable enough once it has been allowed 30-45 minutes to warm up. I'm not sure drift will be a problem with a 2016 unless you want to test radios with very narrow cw filters installed.

The low cost alternative is to buy something much older like a classic old Advance signal generator. These are fine for aligning LW/MW/SW radios and I would guess they cost somewhere between £20 and £60 depending on condition.
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