Anritsu ML2430A operation manual Opw, Contents

GPIB OPERATION ML4803A EMULATION COMMANDS

OPW Request for channel reading.

Remarks: Outputs measuring condition, measured data, and status. CR and LF codes are automatically output and executed after each line of 22 ASCII characters when the OPW command is used. The format of the returned data is:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13		14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
STATUS														SIGN
			MODE				RANGE				AVERAGE					5 CHARACTER DATA

<CR><LF>

EXPONENT ALWAYS “_” ALWAYS “E”

Figure 6-5.OPW Data Output Format

The data output codes are as shown in the table below. See the next page for measured data output examples.

Output Code	Contents	Function
V	Measured data valid	STATUS
D	Data range over
U	Underrange (dBm and dBr)
O	Overrange
Z	Zero adjustment
WATT	Watt	MODE
dBm	dBm
dBr	dBr
%	%
VSWR	VSWR
dB50	dBu, 50 ￿ system
dB75	dBu, 75 ￿ system
VL50	Volt, 50 ￿ system
VL75	Volt, 75 ￿ system
	HOLD	RANGE
MRG1	highest sensitivity 1
MRG2	2
MRG3	3
MRG4	4
MRG5	lowest sensitivity 5

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