Using Spectrum Analyzer Features

External Keyboard

Using the External Keyboard

C A U T I O N

External Keyboard

Installation

To Enter a Screen Title

The following three example procedures demonstrate how to use an external keyboard to enter a screen title, programming commands, and a prefix. However, a brief procedure on installing your external keyboard is described first. More detailed information on using the external keyboard is found in the HP 8590 E-Series and L-Series Spectrum Analyzers and HP 8591C Cable

TV Analyzer Programmer’s Guide.

The cable TV analyzer must be turned off before connecting an external keyboard to the cable TV analyzer. Failure to do so may result in loss of factory-installed correction constants.

1.Turn off the cable TV analyzer.

2.Connect the cable TV-analyzer rear-panel connector EXT KEYBOARD to the HP C1405A Option ABA Keyboard.

3.Press [LINE) to turn the cable TV analyzer on.

4.The external keyboard is now ready to use for entering a screen title, programming commands, or a prefix.

Refer to the HP 8590 E-Series and L-Series Spectrum Analyzers and

HP 8591C Cable TV Analyzer Programmer’s Guide for more information.

1.Press IESC] to enter the title mode.

2.Type in a screen title using the external keyboard. The entry appears at the top line of the cable TV analyzer display as it is entered.

3.Press (ENTER] on the external keyboard. Pressing Ci%i%] moves the characters to the position on the display for screen title annotation.

Note that to view more than 31 characters per line, turn off the time and date display by pressing the following keys: (CONFIG], TIMEDATE ,

TIMEDATE OM OFF (OFF).

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