Operation
Manual 20791, Rev. C, June 2001 2-83
The advantage of using trace memory over doing a path cal through the golden standard is that trace
memory preserves the original path calibration. If you want to measure a different golden standard, or if
you wanted to save several reference traces, you could make all the measurements using the same correct
original path calibration.
Figure 2-37: “Golden Standard” Precision 20 dB Attenuator Measurement Using 20 dB
Attenuator Reference
SEGMENT
N CLEAR
CLR ALL
SEGMENTS
DEFINE
SEGMENT
LMT LNS
ON/OFF
DISP
RETURN
CH2:SW -PC CRSR 0.11 dB
0.1 dB/ -T1 REF 0.00 dB
PLOT
ENTRIES
ABORT
PLOT
STRT 4.000 GHz
10.000 GHz
2
CRSR 4.000 GHz
SEG STRT-FREQ UPPER LOWER STOP-FREQ UPPER LOWER
1 4.000 GHz 0.20 -0.20 8.000 GHz
2 8.000 GHz 0.25 -0.25 10.000 GHz
STOP