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[Blutnase]

Is a BBC licence required to view the live waveforms of these transmissions?

[HAPB]

I have a friend who works in the telecom industry and he really loves the tinySA. He mostly uses it for checking the downstreem spectrum from the cell sites he works on.
One of the features he had pointed out was the small size. It fits in a normal shirt pocket and you can just take it with you where ever you go and you don't need to worry about losing or breaking it, because it's just so cheap.. There's no need to take bulky expensive equipment with you, for doing basic masurements. Also, he said it's just as good as the professional-grade equipment this replaces.

[juliogonzo]

Once upon a time in the 90s as a boy I listened to 800mhz analog cellular phones. Those were the fricken days boys, I tell ya. People were having intimate discussions and I eavesdroped

[garybarnes]

The fact that you identified the aircraft and its route at 02:41 warms the geek in me.
EDIT: Oh, you did it again, more than once. Kudos.

[louis-philip]

I'm imperessed by the number of airplane flybys you're able to catch with the antenna images.

[Tundra-]

I've flown on flight DL87 from Frankfurt to Detriot numerous times! Very funny finding it here on your channel, what a small world!

[radiogeekau]

I got myself one of these last year. Absolutely love it. Especially love watching the 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi signals.

[spitfire]

Brilliant. There’s a whole lot more on the spectrum from the days when I use to hunt for interference on the O2 network using the Rohde & Schwarz spectrum FSH3 spectrum analyser.

[tomrd]

Love the little touch of adsb info of the flights that happen to go by, awesome 💯

[TechOne]

Quality. I like the stone buildings, nicer than the prefab metal boxes. Cheers

[neilsheppard]

That's a nice piece of kit. I remember back in the late 80's I worked for a company that manufactured block converters for General Instrument and as a test technician, one of my duties was to supervise the test, calibration and tuning of those units. One of the SA's that we used was a HUGE HP85_ _ something or other (I forget the exact model number🙄). We had to calibrate the block converters by attenuating the spurious spikes shown on the (green only) display by opening the tuning coils. Wish I'd had a TinySA Ultra back then. In fact, there's loads of stuff that we have now that would have made my job easier then!

Nice video Lewis, loved the moon and the commercial aircraft many thanks!

[huntingtimes]

I have this exact same model you gave it an excellent review. You can also listen to some signals(Analog) with the headphone jack. We still have yet to detect housecat ambushes. Thank you for this video!

[michaelmeyer]

I love my TinySA Ultra. Great for checking my radios for cleanliness, plus see what's transmitting. I even used it to check my wi-fi signal in the house.

[WOFFY-qcte]

Lewis. Nicely composed photos pulling focus on the moon was impressive and the well time arrival of a jet. 73's

[MiG_Foxxy]

I got the same exact device as a gift last year, and considering I don't know all too much about this stuff because I'm new to it, I wasn't quite able to figure out its purpose. I haven't used it for awhile, but now I wanna pull it out again now that I know much more about it. Thank you!

[pinkmouse]

Just wondering...

Could you mount one of those spectrum analysers on your drone, in view of the camera, so you could see what individual antenna are transmitting? ;-)

[robertmeyer]

Them tiny Sa ultra are great ! That DAB 220 MHz dual antennas' May be phased . This directs the signal to the area . Phasing harness and delay lines are used to steer the single to a particular pattern . Very similar to MW broadcast with multi antenna's. just small wave length and stacking over each outher is a outher way to adjust single pattern. With a delay line the single can be pulled down so RF stays local sent out in a downward angle . That angle is from delay line and the delay determines the angle. When you see antenna stacked on top of each outher and phased that is what they are doing . If phased antenna stacked next to each outher the delay lines steer right and left . RF power is split between antenna's . some times un even power or even power. It depends how to want to send the signal. Cheers from NY !

[wtmayhew]

The Tiny SA Ultra + much more approaches the level of a real useful instrument than the original Tiny SA. The Ultra + is improved in just about every way: better dynamic range, much wider frequency range, lower noise, much narrower resolution bandwidth. It is even possible to make quantitative measurements in some situations. The compact size is surprising. It is really fabulous bargain. If we had only had this instrument when I first started tinkering with electronics in the 1960s…

The design is basic but clever. For the modest price, you can’t expect fast sweep speeds or a DSP based IF stage, for those you’ll spend four figures. You get some nice perks such as being able to generate reasonably accurate modulated signals over a decent frequency range. Keep your expectations realistic and be careful not to overload the input to the point of damage. The Tiny SA Ultra + is a very handy instrument to save wear and tear on lab gear or to make moderate precision measurements on its own.

[gtretroworld]

Those Tiny SA's are great fun and I'm loving some of those video captures. Thanks 👍

[JamieCrookes]

I've got one of these myself. Had it for a while, but I didn't realise they made a smaller one. I thought they were all the same sized screen at 4".