Agilent Technologies E8362B, Service Manual

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8-8 Service Guide E8364-90026
General Purpose Maintenance Procedures PNA Series Microwave Network Analyzers
Error Terms E8362B, E8363B, E8364B
Accessing Error Terms
Error terms can be accessed either manually or programmatically:
Manually
• “Front Panel Access to Error Terms” on page 8-8
Programmatically
• “GPIB Access to Error Terms” on page 8-9
• “COM/DCOM Access to Error Terms” on page 8-9
Manual Access to Error Terms
Front Panel Access to Error Terms
NOTE Ensure the calibration correction is active by making sure that
Correction
on/OFF
has a check-mark in the
Calibration
menu.
To access the error terms from the front panel, perform the following steps:
1. In the
System
menu, point to
Service
,
Utilities
, and then click
Cal Set Viewer
.
The
Cal Set Viewer
toolbar appears directly above the trace window.
2. In the
Cal Set
list, select the desired cal set.
3. Click the
Standards/ETerms
button to toggle between viewing the raw measurement
data from the standard or the corrected error term data. Note that the title of the center
box in the tool bar will toggle between
Standard
and
Error Term
.
4. In the
Standard
or
Error Term
list, select the standard or error term to view. Click the
View
check box.
5. Compare the displayed measurement trace to the equivalent data trace plots that start
in “Error Term Data” on page 8-10 , to previously measured data, or to the uncorrected
performance specifications listed in Table 8-1 on page 8-11 .
6. Print numerical data or print a plot of the measurement results.