RF Measurements  CMU 
1100.4903.12 6.60  E-10 
FETCh:NPOWer:STATus?  Measurement Status
Return 
Description of parameters  Def. value  Def. unit  FW vers. 
OFF | 
RUN | 
STOP | 
ERR | 
STEP | 
RDY, 
 
1 to 10000 | 
NONE 
 
1 to 1000 | 
NONE 
Measurement in the OFF state (*RST or ABORt) 
Running (after INITiate, CONTinue or READ) 
Stopped (STOP) 
OFF (could not be started) 
Stepping mode (<stepmode>=STEP) 
Stopped according to repetition mode and stop condition
Counter for current statistics cycle 
No counting mode set 
 
Counter for current evaluation period within a cycle 
Statistic count set to off 
OFF 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NONE 
 
NONE 
– 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
– 
 
– 
V3.07 
Description of command 
This command is always a query. It returns the status of the measurement (see chapters 3 and 5 of CMU operat-
ing manual). 
 
 
 
Subsystem NPOWer:CONTrol 
The subsystem NPOWer:CONTrol defines the repetition mode, statistic count, stop condition, and step-
ping mode of the NPOWer measurement. 
 
  Scope of Measurement
CONFigure:NPOWer:CONTrol <Statistics>, <Repetition>,<StopCond>,<Stepmode> 
<Statistics> 
Description of parameters  Def. value  Def. unit   
1 to 1000 | 
NONE 
No. of evaluation periods within a statistics cycle 
Statistics off 
1 –  
<Repetition> 
Description of parameters  Def. value  Def. unit   
CONTinuous | 
SINGleshot | 
1 ... 10000 
Continuous measurement (until STOP or ABORT) 
Single shot measurement (until Status = RDY) 
Multiple measurement 
(counting, until Status = STEP | RDY) 
SING 
 
–  
<StopCond> 
Description of parameters  Def. value  Def. unit   
SONerror | 
NONE 
Start measurement in case of error (stop on error) 
Continue measurement even in case of error 
NONE –   
<Stepmode> 
Description of parameters  Def. value  Def. unit  FW vers. 
STEP | 
NONE 
Interrupt measurement after each statistics cycle 
Continue measurement according to its rep. mode 
NONE –  V3.07 
Description of command 
This command defines the statistic count, repetition mode, stop condition, and stepping mode for the measure-
ment.