Making Mixer Measurements; Where To Look For More Information - HP 8753E User Manual

This chapter contains information and example procedures on the following topics:
Measurement considerations
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Reducing the effect of spurious responses
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Eliminating unwanted mixing and leakage signals
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How RF and IF are dellned
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Frequency offset mode operation
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Differences between internal and external R channel inputs
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Power meter calibration
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Conversion loss using the frequency offset mode
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High dynamic range swept RF/IF conversion loss
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Fixed IF measurements
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Isolation
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RF feedthrough
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Where to Look for More Information

Additional information about many of the topics discussed in this chapter is located in the
following areas:
Chapter 2, "Making Measurements," contains step-by-step procedures for making
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measurements or using particular functions
Chapter 4, "Printing, Plotting, and Saving Measurement Results," contains instructions
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for saving to disk or the analyzer internal memory, and printing and plotting displayed
measurements
Chapter 5, "Optimizing Measurement Results, n describes techniques and functions for
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achieving the best measurement results
Chapter 6, "Application and Operation Concepts, n contains explanatory-style information
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about many applications and analyzer operation.
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