Fed into a function generator, the mini-NAVTEX station’s signal was easily received and recorded by the painfully slow teleprinter. There’s that impatience again.

A function generator is a handy piece of test equipment to have on-site. [Kammenos] designed and built his own function generator, using the bench itself as the enclosure.

But the first function generator came from . . . well, nobody is really certain. Hewlett-Packard Co., which produced almost any test instrument you could name, had a function generator, the 202A, in ...

The traditional analog function generator with its customary triple-threat ensemble of square, triangle, and sine waveform outputs is a familiar tool on electronics lab benches. It’s also a classical ...

Connect the RLC circuit to the function generator using an adapter and banana cables. Connect the oscilloscope to two elements in the circuit. Be careful to ground the measurements at the same point.