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Section 6—Setting Up a 20 dB Increment on the
Test Set

You can increase or decrease the 

Sctr A Pwr

by 20 dB

with a press of one button. Listed below are the
steps to set up a 20 dB increment adjustment:

1. Go to the CDMA TRANSMITTER POWER

RANGE TEST screen, see Figure 13.

2. Move the cursor to the 

Sctr A Pwr

field (item 7).

3. Press the 

Incr Set

key on the front panel of the

test set.

4. Typically 

I = 1.00

will appear in the 

Sctr A Pwr

field. Using the DATA KEYS, enter the value 

20

and then press the knob.

5. By using the up- and down-arrow keys (or turn-

ing the knob) on the front panel of the test set,
the power will increase or decrease in incre-
ments of 20 dB each time an arrow key is
pressed (or the knob is turned).

Section 7—Determining the Test Set’s Trigger
Time Delay

In order to perform an accurate open loop power
control time-response test, it is important to accu-
rately determine the delay between the trigger sig-
nal and the actual power step at the test set’s out-
put. Inaccurate delay times will cause the test to
start before the power level from the test set has a
chance to change. This will often cause the test
results to indicate a failure. For details, see

Appendix 5—Trigger Cable and Trigger Signal
Description.

1. Turn off the phone.

2. On the spectrum analyzer:

2a. Press the PRESET key on the front panel. 

2b. Press the 

Spectrum Analyzer 

softkey.

3. On the test set, set the 

Sctr A Pwr

field in the

CDMA TRANSMITTER POWER RANGE TEST
screen to 

–40 dBm

(see Figure 13, item 7).

4. For testing PCS phones only, on the test set, set

the 

Output Atten Hold

field to 

on

(see Figure 13,

item 8).

5. On the spectrum analyzer:

5a. Press the FREQUENCY key.

5b.  Enter the center frequency that the test set

(forward channel) is operating on. For
example: RF Chan Std = US PCS; RF
Channel = 500; forward channel frequency
= 1955 MHz.

5c.  Press the ENTER key (same as Hz/µv/µs

key).

5d. On the spectrum analyzer, press the SPAN

key.

Figure 13. CDMA TRANSMITTER POWER RANGE TEST
Screen

Содержание 8924C

Страница 1: ...hod 18 Using the Agilent 8924C Test Set 18 Appendix 4 Trigger Signal Description 19 Making a Trigger Cable 20 Trigger Signal Description 19 Reference 19 Open Loop Power Control Time Response Test This...

Страница 2: ...0 dBm base station See Figure 2 2 The test set power is increased by a step of 20 dB to a power level of 40 dBm 3 The test set power is decreased by a step of 20 dB to a power level of 60 dBm 4 The te...

Страница 3: ...easurements Option 160 CDMA firmware for use with option 151 OTHER SUGGESTED OPTIONS Option 041 GPIB and Parallel Interface Option 105 Time Gated Spectrum Analysis To determine which spectrum analyzer...

Страница 4: ...et for cellular frequencies or to the RF IN OUT port on the PCS interface for PCS frequencies 4 Connect the trigger cable from the AUX CON TROL port 15 pin D connector on the back of the test set to t...

Страница 5: ...5 Figure 4 Setup for PCS Band Phones...

Страница 6: ...onfiguring the Test Set 3 Set the RF power increment to 20 dB on the test set as described in Section 6 Setting Up a 20 dB Increment on the Test Set 4 Calibrate channel power on the test set by access...

Страница 7: ...pt 2 9b Press the test set s CALL key to connect a call in data loopback mode at full rate The phone will usually display a message indicating LOOP MODE 10 Once a call is connected go to the CDMA TRAN...

Страница 8: ...ectrum analyzer 16 Step decrease Sctr A Pwr field to 80 dBm The new time response will be displayed on the spectrum analyzer 17 Step increase Sctr A Pwr field to 60 dBm The new time response will be d...

Страница 9: ...order to activate the RF In Out field item 2 2 The RF In Out field should be set to the attenua tion value determined by the methods described in Appendix 3 Determining Cable Connection Losses This wi...

Страница 10: ...phone to the appropriate RF channels If the RF channel is not known or incorrectly entered into the test set the phone will start to scan all the possible channels in the phone s channel list If an o...

Страница 11: ...elect Chan Power item 5 For this test the channel power meter is used because it gives a channel power reading specific to the reverse channel bandwidth that is occupied by the phone 6 The Power Meas...

Страница 12: ...tely determine the delay between the trigger sig nal and the actual power step at the test set s out put Inaccurate delay times will cause the test to start before the power level from the test set ha...

Страница 13: ...s the EXTERNAL softkey NOTE The spectrum analyzer is now ready to measure the time delay between the E8285A trigger signal going high and the E8285A RF output level changing 20 dB 10 Change the test s...

Страница 14: ...channel 3 Press the MS EXT ATTEN softkey on sub menu 1 of 3 enter the value for the attenuation meas ured from the power splitter and the cables connecting the test set to the spectrum analyzer This i...

Страница 15: ...the Time Response Function 1 Press the More 1 of 3 softkey on the CDMA ANA LYZER main menu to go to menu 2 of 3 see Figure 16 2 Press the Time Response softkey to access the time response test functio...

Страница 16: ...r an accurate delay time in order to obtain accurate test results The test may fail frequently if the trigger does not occur at the time of power transitions 3d Press the Previous Menu softkey to retu...

Страница 17: ...nstant The open loop power control response for cellular and PCS frequencies are described by the following equations Cellular Equation Receive Power Forward Link Transmit Power Reverse Link Nominal P...

Страница 18: ...trol mode but with an error of 1 dB at best This can cause a problem when the base station is transmitting near the noise floor Since there is no form of error correction associated with the punc ture...

Страница 19: ...two cables an external power meter can be used Listed below are the steps you need to take to find your RF power compensation 1 Zero the power meter 2 Connect the power meter directly to the test set...

Страница 20: ...the mobile s open loop power control notices that it is transmit ting the reverse signal at too high a power and starts to lower its signal strength This variation is undesirable for the open loop tim...

Страница 21: ...BNC ground lug 4 Shrink wrap the D connector so it will not contact any pins 5 Shrink wrap the conductor and soldered pins and install the hood on the D connector Trigger Signal Description Approximat...

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