Getting Started How to Change the Value of a Parameter
52 Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B, and 8166A/B User’s Guide, Fourth Edition
The Return Loss Application is only available for the Agilent 8163B
Lightwave Multimeter.
NOTE After you exit from the application, any modules selected by these
applications will automatically be preset, all parameters will be set to
their default values for the selected modules.
How to Change the Value of a
Parameter
What follows is a description of the various ways of changing the value
of parameters. Examples in which particular parameter values are
changed are given with the parameter descriptions.
Parameters can be either:
• continuous, you may choose any value within a given range, or
• discrete, you may choose a value from a menu.
How to Select a Parameter
You can select the parameter from the following screens:
• from the Details screen, after pressing the [Details] softkey,
• from the Menu screen, after pressing the [Menu] softkey, or,
• for the Agilent 8163A/B and Agilent 8164A/B, from the Overview
screen.
To start editing a parameter, you move to it and:
•press the Enter hardkey,
• press the [Edit] softkey,
• press the Modify Knob (if you are using the Agilent 8164A/B), or,
• for numerical parameters only, type a digit on the numerical keypad
(if you are using the Agilent 8164A/B).
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