HP 8530A Operating And Programming Manual

Operating and Programming Manual HP 8530A Receiver ABCDE HP P art No . 8530-90010 Printed in US A F ebruary 1994 Edition 2 ...

Manual Part Number: Revision Date: HP References in this Manual This manual may contain references to HP or Hewlett-Packard. Please note that Hewlett- Packard's former test and measurement, semiconductor products and chemical analysis businesses are now part of Agilent Technologies. We have made no changes to this manual copy. The HP XXXX referred to in this document is now the Agilent XXXX. For example, model number HP8648A is now model number Agilent 8648A. About this Manual We’ve added this manual to the Agilent website in an effort to help you support your product. This manual provides the best information we cou ...

Legal Information Legal notices are posted in the beginning of the HP 8530A User's Guide . c Copyright 1994 Hewlett-P ackard Company . All rights reserved. ...

Printing History New editions of this manual will incorporate all material updated since the previous editions . The manual printing date and part number indicate its current edition. The printing date changes when a new edition is printed. (Minor corrections and updates which are incorporated at reprint do not cause the date to change .) The manual part number changes when extensive technical changes are incorporated. The following versions of this manual have been produced: Edition Date Firmware Revision Edition 1 June 1992 A.01.40 Edition 2 October 1993 A.01.60 Manual Applicability This manual applies to HP 8530A Receivers having an HP 85102R IF det ...

Safety Considerations General This product and related documentation must be reviewed for familiarization with safety markings and instructions before operation. This product has been designed and tested in accordance with international standards . Safety Symbols L Instruction manual symbol: the product will be marked with this symbol when it is necessary for the user to refer to the instruction manual for warnings or cautions . M Indicates hazardous voltages . K Indicates earth (ground) terminal. W arning The W ARNING sign denotes a hazard. It calls attention to a procedure , practice , or the like , which, if not correctly performed or adhered to , c ...

Servicing Any servicing, adjustment, maintenance , or repair of this product must be performed by qualied personnel. Capacitors inside this product could still be charged even when disconnected from their power source . T o avoid a re hazard, only fuses with the required current rating and of the specied type (normal blow , time delay , etc .) are to be used for replacement. v ...

Typeface Conventions Bold Bold type is used to introduce a new term. T erms that are highlighted in this way are dened in the glossary . Italics Italic type is used for emphasis , and for the titles of manuals and other publications . It is also used when describing a computer variable. F or example: \Type: LOAD BIN lename  Return  " Computer Computer type is used to depict on-screen prompts and messages .  F ront Panel Keys  Front panel keys are shown in enclosed boxes . Numbers you must enter into the data keypad are shown in normal print, they are not enclosed in boxes . NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Soft Keys Softkeys are the keys on the righ ...

W arranty Certication Hewlett-P ackard Company certies that this product met its published specications at the time of shipment from the factory . Hewlett-P ackard further certies that its calibration measurements are traceable to the United States National Institute of Standards and T echnology (NIST , formerly NBS), to the extent allowed by the Institute's calibration facility , and to the calibration facilities of other International Standards Organization members . W arranty This Hewlett-P ackard instrument product is warranted against defects in material and workmanship for a period of one year from date of delivery . During the warranty perio ...

Contents 1. General Information Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Operating and Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 HP 8530A Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Measurement F eatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Design Background of the HP 8530A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Major F eatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Connector Savers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12 Connector Cleaning Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 T ouch Up P aint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 Environmental Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 T emperature , Humidity , Altitude , RFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 Electrical Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 Size and W eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 Al ...

3. Front and Rear P anel Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 Front P anel Display F eatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Display Annotation Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Channel/P arameter Identication Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Stimulus V alues Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 A ctive Entry Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Title Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 System Messages Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ...

4. A ctive Channel Block Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 The Two Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 Independent Channel Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 Internal Data Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 5. Menus Block Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1 Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 Section Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 Information P ertaining to All Calibration Types . . ...

Standards Required for a 1-P ort Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32 P erforming a 1-P ort Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33 Error Correction Now Goes ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34 Supplementary Calibration Subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35 Storing and Loading Calibration Data (to/from disc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35 Storing the Cal Set to Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35 Storing a Single Cal Set to a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35 Replacing an Existing File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5- ...

Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-55 Frequency Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-55 Time Domain (Time Band P ass) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-56 Angle Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-56 Specify Time and Specify Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-56 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57 Section Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57  DISPLA Y  Key Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57 Displ ...

Delta Mode Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-78 Marker Search Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-79 Search Right and Search Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-80
Mode Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-81 Example of Delta Marker Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-81 Beamwidth and Bandwidth Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-83 6. Stimulus Functions Chapter Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1 Introduction to Stimulus Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Sweep Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18 Distortion Caused by Excessively-F ast Sweep Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18 Example: Eects of Sweep Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19 Sweep Execution, Hold/Single/Number of Groups/Continual . . . . . . . . . . 6-20 Why use Number of Groups? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21 Coupled/Uncoupled Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21 How to tell if a function is coupled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21 Setting Stimulus P ower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21 Setting S ...

Phase Oset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4 40 dB and 60 dB P attern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5 Trace A veraging and Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5 A veraging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5 A veraging details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5 Notication when averaging is nished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5 A veraging factor recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6 Smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6 Delay F eatures . . . . . . . . ...

Eects of RCS Calibration on Time Domain Responses . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9 Isolation Error T erm (Range Clutter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9 Frequency Response Error T erm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-9 Horizontal Axis: T arget Zone Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-10 V ertical Axis: Clutter Removal and Reference Level Shift . . . . . . . . 13-10 T arget Shadowing and T arget Scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11 RCS Measurement Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11 Masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11 Reverberations . . . . . ...

Viewing a Directory of Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-7 Deleting Disc Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 Un-deleting Disc Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 Using an External Disc Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 Compatible Disc Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 Disc Unit Number and Disc V olume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 Connections and Conguration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8 Initializing a Hard Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...