3 Using P-Series Power Sensor
118 N1911A/1912A P-Series Power Meters User’s Guide
Setting the Trace Display
The P- Series power meter is optimized to operate in the trace display
mode when measuring a pulsed signal.
The swiftest method to get the power meter into a trace display is
described in the following procedure:
1 Connect the power sensor to the power meter and connect it to the
power source
2 Set the Channel Frequency
3 Set the Trigger to Continuous
4 Set the Display to Trace
5 Expand window and use the Gate control and Trace control menus to set
the gate markers, trigger delay, and scale.
6 When you are satisfied with the configuration you may want to save it
for future use. See “Saving and Recalling Power Meter States” on
page 104 for further information.
The procedure assumes you are starting from a default preset.
You can return to other menus later to add more accuracy on the measurement, for
example, Channel Setup, to set the measurement average, the video average and the
bandwidth of a modulating signal.