Agilent Technologies E4406A Making a Measurement, Step, Primary Key, Setup Keys, Related Keys

Getting Started

Making a Measurement

Making a Measurement

This instrument enables you to make a wide variety of measurements on digital communications equipment using the Basic Mode measurement capabilities. It also has optional measurement personalites that make measurements based on industry standards.

To set up the instrument to make measurements, you need to:

1.Select a mode or personality which corresponds to a digital communications format, like cdma2000, W-CDMA, or EDGE. Use the Basic mode to make measurements of signals with non-standard formats. After selection of the mode, adjustments to the mode settings may be made as required.

2.Select a specific measurement to be performed, like ACP, Channel Power, or EVM, etc. After selection of a measurement, adjustments to the measurement settings may be made as required.

Depending on Measurement Control settings, the instrument will begin making the selected measurements. The resulting data will be shown on the display or available for export.

3.Select a front panel View to display the data from the current measurement. Depending on the mode and measurement selected, various graphical and tabular presentations are available.

If you have a problem, and get an error message, see the E4406A VSA Transmitter Tester Instrument Messages and Functional Tests Guide.

The main keys used in the three steps are shown in the table below.

Step	Primary Key	Setup Keys	Related Keys
1. Select & setup a	MODE	Mode Setup, Input,	System
mode		FREQUENCY/
		Channel
2. Select & setup a	MEASURE	Meas Setup	Meas Control, Restart
measurement
3. Select & setup a	View/Trace	SPAN X Scale,	File, Save, Print, Print
view		AMPLITUDE Y Scale,	Setup, Marker, Search
		Display, Zoom ,
		Next Window

A setting may be reset at any time, and will be in effect on the next measurement cycle or View.

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