Chapter 1, Getting Started
Introduction
IntroductionWho should use the | If you are installing, commissioning, or maintaining Personal Communication |
CDMA/PCS BS | Services (PCS) sites using the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) standard, |
Test Software? | this Software will assist you in performing tests of transmitter and receiver |
| performance. |
Product | The HP 83236B CDMA/PCS BS Test Software is an Instrument BASIC |
Description | (IBASIC) application used to set up the PCS Interface for transmitter and receiver |
| measurements on CDMA base station equipment. The Software runs on the Test |
| Set’s internal IBASIC controller to allow you to manually control the PCS |
| Interface (which has no |
| This latest revision of the Software provides support for the North American PCS |
| channel plans plus two proposed band definitions for use in international PCS |
| networks. |
| The CDMA/PCS BS Test Software is designed to run on the HP 8921A Cell Site |
| Test Set using the HP 83203B or HP 83205A Cellular Adapters (an equivalent |
| configuration is the HP 8921A Option 600, 601, 603). This combination of test |
| equipment plus the Software is hereafter referred to as the “Test System.” |
Software Operation | This Software does not perform automated measurements of a CDMA base |
in Brief | station; it controls the Test System then allows you to make these measurements |
| manually using the CDMA test screens. The basic steps are: |
| • Set up the base station and test equipment. |
| • Load and run the Software. |
| • Enter information about your base station. |
| • The Software configures the Test System to test. |
| • Exit the Software and go to the CDMA screens. |
| • Make your CDMA measurement(s). |
| The first four steps are detailed in this chapter. The remaining steps are presented |
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