12:03 <electronic_eel> azonenberg: did you see the latest signal path episode, the one with the nixie counter? Shahriar briefly shows a new siggen he's been testing from https://erainstruments.com/

12:04 <electronic_eel> the one he's been testing goes to 15 GHz, but they also have one up to 20 GHz. the 20 GHz one is only $2250. wouldn't one of those be a better fit for your scope vna idea? because you wouldn't need external doublers or triplers

12:06 <electronic_eel> downside of these siggens is that they don't have modulation capability. but for the vna thing that wouldn't be used anyways as far as i understood it

12:17 <electronic_eel> s/modulation capability/vector modulation capability/

17:44 <azonenberg> yes i did, looks cool

17:45 <azonenberg> It would be a better fit but i was getting the vector siggen for other reasons

17:46 <azonenberg> I'm certainly eyeing the ERA as a possible addition to the lab. my use case actually would be as a synthesizer for a LO that I'd then mix with the output of the siglent

17:46 <azonenberg> to get vector modulation out into the X-band

17:46 <azonenberg> vs right now i can do that, but i have to generate the LO by doubling/tripling the tone output of my VNA

17:46 <azonenberg> and using the siglent for the IF