Signal Hound BB60A real-time spectrum analyser

The Signal Hound BB60A is a real-time spectrum analyser and RF recorder designed to capture and display RF events as short as 1 µs. The small, lightweight, USB-based RF spectrum analyser operates from 9 kHz to 6 GHz and can go anywhere.

The analyser’s RF recorder uses the USB 3.0 data pipe. It streams 80 million samples/s of RF data to a PC via USB 3.0, enabling real-time analysis of any 20 MHz segment of spectrum. Users are able to visualise spectral events as short as 1 µs with 100% POI (probability of intercept) within a 20 MHz instantaneous bandwidth.

The device comes with a compiled API (application programming interface) for writing custom software. The open-source spectrum analyser software provides examples of techniques for interfacing the API when writing customised applications.

The product is used for real-time spectrum monitoring, manufacturing process control, interference hunting, spread spectrum signal analysis, capturing intermittent events and general-purpose spectrum analysis. It can be customised to perform complex, remote and/or automated functions.