So, in my huge amounts of free time I've been thinking that the one area
of electronics I don't really have much experience is radio.

I've been experimenting and having some fun, but I've convinced myself
that something that might turn out to be a really fun and educational
adventure is building a spectrum analyzer.

There's not of google links out there to half finished or ancient
projects.=20

I'm not looking at creating laboratory grade equipment, just something
that'll help me see that the circuits I'm building are actually doing.

So, any suggestions?

I'm not to concerned about the interface or display, that's the kind of
stuff I've done before so I'd probably just take the easy way out and
use a PC initially.

My main area of concern is the actual RF stuff.

I'd like the analyzer to at least cover up to about 1GHz (the 2.4GHz
band would be nice (and very useful in the future) but I feel I might be
overreaching there).

Alot of projects use the tuners in VCRs for the RF front end. Any
recommendations on something that might work well?

Ideally if I could get a tuner to do most of the dirty work (something
like feed it a voltage to select which frequency to tune, and output an
RSSI signal to indicate signal strength) that would be a great way to
start.=20

Any suggestions? Anybody do something similar?

Thanks for your ideas!

TTYL

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