Optimizing And Troubleshooting The Measurement - R&S FSW Series User Manual

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Figure 7-38: Measurement of the R&S FSW's intrinsic noise power in a 1.23 MHz channel band-

7.2.8 Optimizing and Troubleshooting the Measurement

If the results do not meet your expectations, or if you want to minimize the measure-
ment duration, try the following methods to optimize the measurement:
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Only activate as many adjacent channels as necessary to minimize the required
span and thus the required measurement time for the measurement.
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Increase the RBW to minimize the measurement time; however, consider the
requirements of the standard if you need to measure according to standard! The
automatic settings are always according to standard.
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Take advantage of the speed optimization mode in the "Sweep" settings if you do
not require the larger dynamic range (see
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Reduce the "Sweep Time" and thus the amount of data to be captured and calcu-
lated; however, consider the requirements regarding the standard deviation.
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To improve the stability of the measured results, increase the "Sweep Time",
which also leads to more averaging steps.
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Instead of trace averaging, use an RMS detector with a higher "Sweep Time" to
obtain better average power results in less time.
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To determine a channel power level quickly, use the
surement
ment is a zero span measurement where the sweep time determines the measure-
ment time. Due to the FFT measurement, duplicate averaging is performed, provid-
ing very stable results very quickly.
Note, however, that for TDP measurements, channel filters are not available and a
fixed RBW is used. Thus, the measurement may not be according to standard for
some test cases.
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Channel Power and Adjacent-Channel Power (ACLR) Measurement
width.
(TDP) rather than a Channel Power measurement. The TDP measure-
Measurements and Results
"Optimization" on page 470).
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