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DETERMINING
THE MEASUREMENT ACCURACY
OF THE HP 8510
MICROWAVE NETWORK ANALYZER
Bruce Donecker
Network Measurements Division
1400 Fountain Grove Parkway
Santa Rosa, California 9~5401
Rf &. Microwave
Measurement
Symposium
and
Exhibition
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Abst ract
Toda y, the HP 8510 Micro wave Netw ork Anal yzer is
perha ps the most prec ise micro wave meas urem ent
syste m comm ercia lly avai lable . This pape r expl ores
a-
the pote ntial sour ces of meas urem ent erro rs. Oper
tor techn iques and instr umen tatio n char acte risti cs
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are exam ined, both qual itati vely and quan titat ively
The purpo se is to arriv e at a pragm atic over all
deter mina tion of meas urem ent prec ision ;
AUTHOR
Bruc e Done cker, Engi neeri ng secti on Mana ger for
ent
comp uter- aided engi neer ing, HP Netw ork Meas urem
Divi sion, Sant a Rosa , CA. BSEE , Purd ue Univ ersit y.
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MSEE, Stan ford Univ ersit y. with HP since 1968
Proj ects inclu ded swee per RF plug -in and majo r retr ofit
deve lopm ent for HP 8410 netw ork anal yzer . Most ork
rece ntly was R&D Progr am Mana ger for HP 8510 netw ial
init
anal yzer proj ect wher e his acti vitie s inclu ded
deve lopm ent of 26 GHz vect or bridg e, phas elock
circ uitry and HP 8510 block diagr am defi nitio n.
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DETERMINING
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System Performance Dimensions
Parameter (Sll, S2l, Sl2, S22)
Test Set