Tone-Burst Receiver - HP 8901B Operation And Calibration Manual

Model
8901B
Operation
Tone-Burst Receiver
FUNCTIONS
Special F'unction 18 (Tone-Burst Receiver)
DESCRIPTION
In some FM applications (mobile radio testing, for example), after a transmitter is keyed, it issues
squelch tones for a brief interval. Often, it is necessary
to
measure the frequency of the squelch tones.
This measurement is made difEcult by the noise in the demodulated audio during the short delay
between the keying of the transmitter and the appearance of the audio tones.
Special F'unction 18 enables the Modulation Analyzer
to
be configured as a tone-burst receiver. This
function inserts a user-selectable delay between the instant the instrument senses an
RF
signal at its
RF INPUT and the time when it turns on the output of MODULATION OUTPUT/AUDIO
INPUT.
When an external counter is connected
to
this output, the squelch tone will reach the counter only
when a valid measurement can be made. The time delay is selectable from
1
through 99 milliseconds.
The following photo illustrates a 99 ms delay between transmitter keying (lower trace).
M
0
D
U LATl
ON
OUTPUT
TRANSMITTER
KEYING PULSE
+0.55V
1.1
vp.p
-0.55V
+0.5V
l.ovp.p
-0.5V
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Oscilloscope Photo Depicting a 99
ms
Delay Between Pansmitter Keying Pulse
(Lower Bace) and Activation
of
MODULATION OUTPUTIAUDIO INPUT
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