{"id":7837,"date":"2023-09-30T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/30\/the-tinysa-ultra-spectrum-analyser-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"the-tinysa-ultra-spectrum-analyser-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/30\/the-tinysa-ultra-spectrum-analyser-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The TinySA Ultra Spectrum Analyser (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ELGDz3ibNg?si=WJAZP91eK4qfODxC\" title=\"YouTube video player?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>I got mine this week, and I&#8217;ve been playing with it. When I spoke to Dean KK4DAS, I asked what he thought the first thing I did with it was. He guessed that I tried out the greatly improved Resolution Bandwidth. Good guess, but not quite: I tried out the &#8220;listening&#8221; feature on this SA. You will recall that the plain-vanilla, non-Ultra TinySA <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2021\/10\/how-to-listen-with-your-tinysa.html \">required a hardware mod<\/a> to allow for listening. Dean had told me that the Ultra came with a headphone jack. Indeed. I fired it up and was able to listen to 1220 AM and also to the FM broadcast stations in the area. With the FM stations, I&#8217;m guessing I was using a form of slope detection (IMSAI guy says it detects AM). I tried to see if I could see\/hear stations on the ham bands &#8212; so far, no luck. I&#8217;m not sure why, but I will work on this. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The IMSAI guy video (above) does a great job in comparing the TinySA Ultra to a &#8220;real&#8221; spectrum analyser. I think it compares very well. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>One note on where I got mine: I ended up getting it from R&#038;L Electronics, the recommended U.S. dealer for the device. I had tried getting it (cheap) through AliExpress. This didn&#8217;t really work out. The tracking info from AliExpress showed that the box had made it to my local post office, but I never got it. It may have been that they just didn&#8217;t take the complete mailing address from PayPal. In any event, I was able to get a refund from PayPal, so no loss here. R&#038;L turned out to be a great source. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjdVScP5Hs-fkXXf4dKXuoYf5FoBbUaJam2TpVKRyxGu7tV3a3Whzd4W3oW9Oa9dLrCj5UQx_okHBz0J3NjvTYEKSUE_IDxHcP5BozHyW392qOq7qEV7kjSklARHJ1Om-zMjfM-4s1s8Ex0a6_5ZgQ76DEUposSs0_ncB6CBTx3nj9QnGzwFMmYH2vjy_c\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_1753104889.png\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ultra, of course.<\/span> <\/b><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got mine this week, and I&#8217;ve been playing with it. When I spoke to Dean KK4DAS, I asked what he thought the first thing I did with it was. He guessed that I tried out the greatly improved Resolution Bandwidth. Good guess, but not quite: I tried out the &#8220;listening&#8221; feature on this SA. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/30\/the-tinysa-ultra-spectrum-analyser-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The TinySA Ultra Spectrum Analyser (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,38,90,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fm","category-parts-suppliers","category-souleles-dean","category-test-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7839,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions\/7839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}