General Purpose Maintenance Procedures
Error Terms
Figure 8-3
Flowgraph of Three-Port Error Terms
where:
E = error term
DIR = Directivity
MAT = Forward Source Match and Reverse Load Match
TRK = Forward Reflection Tracking and Reverse Transmission Tracking
For the case of a full 3-port calibration, port 1 has
three Match error terms:
S11 source match
S12 load match
S13 load match
and three Tracking error terms:
S11 reflection tracking
S12 transmission tracking
S13 transmission tracking
There are six isolation terms not shown.
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PNA Series Microwave Network Analyzers
E8362C, E8363C, E8364C
Service Guide E8364-90038