General Power Meter Functions; Setting The Units Of Measurement; Table 2-2 Measurement Units - Single Channel Meters; Table 2-3 Measurement Units - Dual Channel Meters - Agilent Technologies N1911A User Manual

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General Power Meter Functions

Setting the Units of Measurement

The Units menu is used to select the measurement units for the currently
selected window. These can either be logarithmic (dBm or dB) or linear
(Watt or %) units. Presetting (
measurement units to dBm (logarithmic units).
show units that are applicable to each measurement mode.
Press
and
operation are grayed out.
When the measurement unit is set to Watt (W), it is possible that negative power results
N O T E
are displayed when measuring low power levels.

Table 2-2 Measurement units - Single channel meters

Table 2-3 Measurement units - Dual channel meters

30
Units
,
%
. Softkeys which cannot be selected in your particular mode of
Measurement Mode
Log
Linear
Measurement Mode
Ratio Log
Linear
Difference Log
Linear
) the power meter sets the
. Select the unit of measurement from
Relative Mode Off
dBm
Watt
Relative Mode Off
dB
%
dBm
Watt
N1911A/1912A P-Series Power Meters User's Guide
Table 2- 2 and Table 2- 3
dBm W
,
Relative Mode On
dB
%
Relative Mode On
dB
%
dB
%
dB
, ,