SignalHound BB60D HF/VHF/UHF/SHF 9 kHz - 6 GHz
The Signal Hound BB60D is a high speed real-time spectrum analyzer and RF recorder. With a tuning range from 9kHz to 6GHz, it collects 80M samples/second, and streams I/Q data to your computer.
It is directly powered from the USB port(s).
The BB60D comes with the Spike spectrum analyzer application and has a driver for go2MONITOR
Key Facts
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- go2signals support
- 9 kHz to 6.0 GHz
- Major performance Increase of 10dB more Dynamic Range Vs. BB60C
- Includes powerful SpikeTM spectrum analyzer software
- Exceptionally clean spurious and residual responses
- Streaming bandwidths from 4 kHz up to 27 MHz
- Preselector filters from 130 MHz to 6 GHz
- Includes powerful SpikeTM spectrum analyzer software
- Sweeps 24 GHz / sec (@ RBW ≥30 kHz)
- -40°C to +65°C Operating temperature range available
- Power supply via USB
- USB 3.0 serial bus
A 6 GHz real-time, high-speed spectrum analyzer, the BB60D streams 140 MB/sec of digitized RF to your PC over USB 3.0, providing an instantaneous bandwidth of 27 MHz, and sweeping at speeds of 24 GHz/sec. Add a high-speed hard drive to your PC or laptop (250 MB/s sustained write speed), and the BB60D doubles as an RF recorder, streaming up to 80 million IF samples per second, or 40 million I/Q samples to disk.
Spectrum analysis can be performed with the BB60D utilizing our proprietary application programming interface (API) which can execute up to 1.2 million FFT spectrum's or 320 million FFT points every second, delivering real-time spectrum data to our GUI application, Spike, or to your own software application.
This latest addition to the BB60 series at Signal Hound gives customers more of what they have asked for; increased power and performance. Signal analysis with the BB60D in a congested environment makes easy work of identifying targeted weak signals in the presence of strong nearby signals. With a -30 dBm reference level, you can see all the way down to DANL (Displayed Average Noise Level ). The increased selectivity and improved dynamic range make the BB60D an outstanding tool for spectrum analysis and RF recording.
Technical Data
| Feature | BB60D |
|---|---|
| Range: | 9 kHz - 6.0 GHz |
| Preselector | Filters from 130 MHz to 6 GHz |
| Maximum input level | + 20 dBm (16V) |
| Coherent streaming bandwidth (I/Q data) | 4 kHz - 27 MHz |
| Internal Timebase Accuracy | +/- 1ppm per year |
| Resolution Bandwidths (RBW) | 10 Hz to 10 MHz |
| Sweep Speed (RBW ?30 kHz) | 24 GHz/sec |
| VSWR | < 1.4 typical |
| Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL) | -140dBm/Hz @ 9 kHz to 500 kHz -154dBm/Hz @ 500 kHz to 30 MHz -158dBm/Hz @ 30 MHz to 6 GHz, + 1.0dB/GHz |
| Residual responses (Ref level ? -30dBm, 0dB attenuation) |
'-120dBm @ 500 kHz - 6 GHz |
| Intermodulation-free dynamic range (IMFDR) | 104 dB |
| LO leakage | < -80dB |
| Phase noise @ 1 GHz | -80 dBc/Hz @ 100 Hz -90 dBc/Hz @ 1 kHz -93 dBc/Hz @ 10 kHz -97 dBc/Hz @ 100 kHz -117 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz |
| Spurious & image rejection any ref level from -30dBm to +10dBm |
-50dBc |
| IP2 (-10dBm ref level) | +55 dBm @ 100 kHz-30 MHz +36 dBm @ 30 MHz-130 MHz +55 dBm @ 130MHz-6 GHz |
| IP3 (-10dBm ref level) | +10 dBm |
| Synchronization (? 20MHz IBW) | 1 PPS GPS input port enables +/- 50ns time stamping |
| Operating temperature | 0 grd C to +65 grd C, (-40 grd C to +65 grd C, optional) |
| Size | 219 mm x 81 mm x 30 mm |
| Weight | 0.5 kg |
| Power | One USB 3.0 port and one adjacent USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port 6 W active, 1 W idle |
| Control and communication | USB 3.0 |
| Connectors | SMA: Input 50 Ohm SMA: 10 MHz Ref In/Out SMA: 1 PPS Trig/Sync USB 3.0 Micro-B female connector |
SignalHound BB60D
A 6 GHz real-time, high-speed spectrum analyzer, the BB60D streams 140 MB/sec of digitized RF to your PC over USB 3.0, providing an instantaneous bandwidth of 27 MHz, and sweeping at speeds of 24 GHz/sec.
