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Using Instrument Functions
Saving and Recalling Measurement Results
Select the Disk
1. If you are using a floppy disk, place a DOS formatted disk in the disk drive
you are using. If your disk is not formatted, refer to the procedure in
“Formatting a Floppy Disk” located later in this section.
Press (
SAVE RECALL
]
and press the-key that corresponds to
the disk where you are going to save data:
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Press Disk to save to the analyzer’s internal
non-volatile memory. (Nonvolatile means that the information will be
retained in memory when the power to the analyzer is turned off.) This
is the default selection.
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Press if you are saving to the analyzer’s internal
volatile memory. (Volatile means that the information will be lost if
power to the analyzer is turned off.)
o If you have the Option installed in your analyzer
you can configure the volatile RAM disk by pressing the
(This will not do anything
on
instruments without
o When this key is pressed, a
message
appears, displaying the current
percentage allocation between RAM disk and memory.
o lb change the memory allocation, press , then enter
the new RAM disk allocation.
o The power must be cycled on the analyzer for the changes in
memory allocation to take effect.
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Press 3 if you are saving to the 3.5 inch disk in
the analyzer’s built-in disk drive (Only MS-DOS format disks can be
used.)
Define and Save Data
1. Press Save .
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Press State if you do
not
want the instrument state saved.
(This will save measurement data only.)
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Press Cal if you want to save the active measurement calibration.
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Press if you want to save the measurement data that is
displayed on the network analyzer screen.
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