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ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION
Ron Ainsworth is the Business Manager for Process Calibration
Tools at Fluke Calibration. After graduating with a degree in
physics in 1998, he started his career in a primary temperature
calibration laboratory in American Fork Utah. He has since had
roles as a laboratory manager and marketing manager at Fluke
Corporation. Enquiries: Twitter @theMetrologyGuy
“What you set is what you get” feature helps you avoid losses, mis-
match errors, and uncertainty contributions introduced by cables,
other devices and interconnections, eliminating complex setups
and time consuming methods otherwise required to obtain accurate
results.
Conclusion
The 96270A can ‘self-characterise’ or profile its output to account for
losses and attenuation of system components like cables, attenuators,
splitters, and connecters, effectively creating a signal reference plane
directly at the connection to the UUT input.
This frequency or amplitude level correction profile is saved into
96270Amemory, which can store up to 30 profiles for different output
and interconnection configurations.
Using a profile, the 96270A applies the level correction data
automatically and delivers the user’s signal level setting accurately
at the reference plane created at the UUT input.
Measured SSB Phase Noise at 1GHz
Offset Frequency
Phase Noise (dBc/Hz)
Most demanding spectrum analyser test points
96270A
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