RF Explorer: How does it do what it does? (020b)

So, you bought an R.F. Explorer handheld Spectrum Analyzer. What a totally awesome little instrument! You want to get the most out of it and want to understand more of what you see on the screen. In this video I will help you understand how ** it gets its data ** it translates this into the frequency domain ** to calculate the frequency resolution with a given SPAN ** to calculate the needed SPAN to achieve a particular resolution ** to calculate what frequencies it will report for a given measurement environment Link for the Calculator Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Link for the Formulas sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n3O5... ---------------------------- Time Marker Notes 00:05 Introduction 01:19 Foundation: Time Domain & Frequency Domain 02:14 How the RF Explorer Gets Its Data 02:17 Grabbing Time Domain Samples 03:34 Converting the Time Domain Data to the Frequency Domain 06:50 RF Explorer: What we see on the screen 12:51 Beautified Explanation 14:40 Calculating the Resolution or "Frequency Bucket" Width 18:24 Calculating the Frequencies that will be reported 23:21 Concluding Comments and Toodle-Oots! -----------------------------