For my Christmas present this year, I would like to have an option in the QA40x software that would allow you to monitor either the output power or voltage for a specified change and document the time that the limit is exceeded, and alert you with a beep or tone if you wanted. You could have it continue to run at that point or stop. I am working on a receiver that is very intermittent, and a feature like this would help a lot. I am thinking you would set up a test done at a single frequency, and not a sweep. Not that @matt doesn’t have enough on his plate, but I thought I would bring it up and see if there are others that would find this useful.
You can just do this with a python script and REST.
I have never programmed with Python or tried to program the QA40x. I just use the standard software, though I have looked at the plot software that is talked about a lot. I have done a little programming with an Arduino, which I think is a C based language, but nothing like what you describe doing.
I have quite a bit of experience with this.
Install Jupyter Notebook and tell me when you are ready to code …
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Thanks for the offer and I will do this, but it might be a few weeks down the road as I have a few things I need to accomplish first, but am looking forward to it !
I would like to do this also.
Essentially turn the QA403 into a controllable data logger to look for intermittent and spurious events in vintage gear restorations, often thermal related (or not).
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