HP 8360 Leveling with Power Meters, Getting Started Advanced l-27, Figure 1-13.Leveling with a Power Meter

Leveling with Power Meters

Leveling with a power meter is similar to leveling with a diode detector. Figure 1-13 shows the setup for power meter leveling.

SYNTHESIZER

POUER

HETER

Figure 1-13. Leveling with a Power Meter

1.Set up the equipment as shown. Be sure to set the power meter to manual range mode and note the range.

2.Refer to menu map 1.

3.Press a).

4.Select Leveling Point PwrHts .

5.Select Pwr Mtr Range. Enter the range value set for the power meter as noted in step 1.

6.Select Coupling Factor , press @‘J (de(m)).

Unlike detector leveling, power meter leveling provides calibrated power out of the leveled RF port.

Hint	To obtain flatness corrected power refer to “Optimizing Synthesizer
	Performance, Creating and Applying the User Flatness Correction
	Array,” later in this section.

Getting Started Advanced l-27