The Agilent/Keysight 8561EC is a portable RF spectrum analyzer for general-purpose testing and demanding applications across wireless communication, aerospace, and defense sectors. It delivers benchtop-class measurement performance in a rugged, field-deployable platform spanning 30 Hz to 6.5 GHz with synthesized tuning for drift-free operation.
Technical Specifications
Frequency Range: 30 Hz to 6.5 GHz
Amplitude Performance:
• Absolute Amplitude Accuracy: ±1.0 dB
• Displayed Average Noise Level (DANL): −151 dBm/Hz
• Phase Noise: 10 kΩ
Environmental:
• Operating Temperature: −10°C to +55°C
• Warm-up Time: 5 minutes
• Construction: MIL-PRF-28800 Class 3 rugged design
• Color display
– Key Features
• Time-gated signal analysis for pulsed RF, TDMA, interleaved, and burst-modulated signals
• Precision timebase with 1 Hz counter resolution
• Adjacent Channel Power (ACP) measurement for burst carrier signals with digital modulation
• Channel Power, Carrier Power, and Occupied Bandwidth Percentage measurements
• Measurement personalities for digital radio and phase noise analysis
– Typical Applications
Wireless communication testing, aerospace signal analysis, defense RF characterization, field-deployable spectrum monitoring, and complex modulation signal analysis requiring time-domain gating.
– Compatibility & Integration
External harmonic mixing supported via Keysight 11970 series harmonic mixers and 11974 series preselected mixers for millimeter-wave applications. Optional tracking generator (Option 002), fast time-domain sweeps (Option 007), Signal Identification (Option 008), and Mass Memory Module (85620A) available.
