Anritsu ML2400A Series - 4-5 CHANNEL MENU

4-5 CHANNEL MENU The Chan nel menu con trols the op er a tion of a dis play chan nel. There are two
dis play chan nels, Chan nel 1 and Chan nel 2. Chan nel 1 ap pears at the top of
the read out dis play and chan nel 2 at the bot tom. If a chan nel in put con fig u ra -
tion is turned off, the re main ing chan nel ap pears in the cen ter of the screen.
NOTE
When ed it ing an en try in a menu, press ing the
CLR key
clears the dig its. If in a menu screen, press ing the
CLR
key re turns to the pre vi ous menu level.
The Chan nel sub menus are as fol lows:
Setup The setup menu al lows the user to set up the con figu ra tion of the dis play
chan nels. The setup pa rame ters are:
CHAN NEL Se lects the chan nel to be con fig ured. Tog gles be tween Chan nel 1
and Chan nel 2.
IN PUT
[CHCFG]
This is the sen sor, com bi na tion of sen sors, or rear panel BNC in -
put that is used to cal cu late the meas ured and proc essed value
for this chan nel. For the Model ML2407A (sin gle input) power
me ter, the avail able op tions are A, Ex ter nal Volts, or OFF. For the
ML2408A (dual input) power me ter, the options are A, B,
A – B, B – A, A/B, B/A, Ex ter nal Volts, or OFF.
UNITS
[CHUNIT]
The units can be dB(m), Watts, dB mV, or dBmV . If the Ex ter nal
Volts in put is se lected, the units are fixed to Volts.
RESO-
LUTION
[CHRES]
The num ber of dec i mal places in which the re sults are dis played
in Read out mode, with cer tain lim i ta tions. If the units se lected
are in Watts or Volts, and the value goes down to pW or
mV, the
num ber of dec i mal places is forced to zero. If the num ber to be
dis played is too large for the num ber of dec i mal places se lected,
the dec i mal places dis played will be re duced.
MIN/MAX
[MNMXS
GMNMX]
This se lec tion turns on the Min/Max Track ing for the dis play
chan nel se lected (not avail able in CDMA mode). On the top line
of the data dis play, when not in menu mode, the min and max of
the chan nel data (af ter com bi na tion and unit con ver sion cal cu la -
tions) is dis played. The left hand set of data is for dis play chan nel
1 and the right hand set for dis play chan nel 2.
In Pro file mode, the Min/Max is be tween cur sors only, as con -
trolled by se lect ing
SINGLE or INFINITE through the
Sys tem|Graph ics|TRACKING menu. SINGLE (de fault) is the most
use ful as it pro vides a con tinu ously up dated read out of the Min/
Max points within the cur sor win dow. The
IN FI NITE set ting is
used when the re sults needs to be col lated over a large number of
sam ples.
ML2400A OM 4-13
OPERATION CHANNEL MENU
NOTE
Use MIN/MAX to track
vari a tions in a mea -
sure ment over time, or
while ad just ing ex ter -
nal de vices or tun ing
over fre quency.
MIN/MAX tracking is
not avail able in CDMA
mode.