Agilent Technologies 8163A User Manual page 194

Setting Attenuation and/or Power Levels
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– Press the [PM-> Off ] softkey,
– Select the channel used to host your reference powermeter,
– Press [OK].
The difference between the power level measured by your reference
powermeter and the power value measured by your Attenuator
P is stored by the Attenuator module as P
actual
P and P
SET
4 If the reference powermeter is hosted by another mainframe:
– Manually enter the value of P
P = P
Off
where P
powermeter.
5 Disconnect the input to the reference powermeter, then connect it
to the DUT input.
6 Edit the P
the DUT. The attenuation, α , displayed is updated to reflect the new
P value.
SET
Figure 122 81566A/67A/76A/77A Setting P
Figure 122 shows an absolute power P
DUT. Here:
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actual
Off
- P
actual ref
is the power level measured by your reference
ref
parameter to control the absolute power applied to
SET
after calibration using [PM->Off]
SET
, then applied to
Offset
of -10 dBm applied to a
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