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Many shareware spectrum analyzers can be found on the world wide web. An excellent shareware program is provided by Spectrogram of Visualization Software LLC (http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram.html).
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We used the TC-08 temperature logger produced by Pico Technology Ltd.
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