Chapter 4 Remote Operation and Programming
Remote-Operation Setup
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The prompt will look either like scpi > or something like E-113> if an error has
occurred. Following the prompt you can type the command you want to send.
For commands that produce a response, the reply will appear on screen. For
example, sending *idn? asks the instrument to identify itself. The transaction
might look something like this:
scpi > *idn?
SYMMETRICOM,5071A,US48051234, 4805
scpi >
After you‘ve selected the communication parameters for the terminal, be sure to
configure the 5071A‘s serial port with the same values, using the CONFIG
menu‘s Serial option.