[time-nuts] Timelab & Agilent 53230a
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Tue Jul 8 18:14:43 EDT 2014
David,
On 07/08/2014 10:49 PM, David Tang wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This may be a rookie question... I am trying to measure phase noise using Timelab and Agilent 53230a but I get a "This plot contains xDEV/phase/frequency data only -- no phase noise or AM noise records". I tried the following settings and other variations but still get the same result. Can someone point me to how to measure PN with a 53230a? Thank you very much for your time.
>
> In Time Lab
> Measurement: Phase noise
> Acquire from HP 53220A/53230a at specified IP address
> Data Type: Time Interval (also tried Frequency)
> Input Frequency:10e6
> Scale Factor 1.0
> Bin Density 29
> Bin Threshold: 4
> Trace History:1
> Trace Duration: 10 min
>
> On the Counter
> Period
> Auto (also tried Continuous)
Have to break it to you, you can't make phase-noise measurements using
TimeLab that way. You either have to have a TimePod or similar to get
the phase-noise record.
The 53230A will just provide you with time-records. You want to use the
time-interval measurement for that.
Cheers,
Magnus
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