Boonton 4530 Peak Power Meter User Manual - Manual (Page 32)

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Chapter 3 Boonton Electronics
Operation 4530 Series RF Power Meter
a. Header. The header displays a title line and a line of text describing the currently highlighted item (sensor or
measurement status, or auxiliary measurement values). A short description of a selected submenu, or action
item, is listed or the value of a selected parameter is displayed.
b. Path. The path appears on the left side of the screen, and is a list of each branch of the menu tree used to get
to the current position. Each time a new menu item is opened, that item is highlighted, and then that item may
be activated. Pressing > or Enter will activate the highlighted item and move to a subordinate menu item
associated with the selected item. Pressing < or ESC will return to the parent menu. Pressing Graph, Text or
Zero/CAL will exit Menu Mode, and abort any parameter editing in progress. Table 3-5 shows the complete
menu structure of the 4530.
c. Menu items. The list of menu items appears on the right side of the screen, where individual selections maybe
highlighted and activated. The menu is always entered with the top item highlighted, and the
∧ and ∨ keys
may be used to move the cursor up and down through the list. If a
↓ or ↑ appears to the left of the top or
bottom menu item, it means that the list extends above or below what is currently displayed on the screen. In
this case, the list can be scrolled up or down to allow access to these additional items.
As each item is highlighted, the header will show a brief description of that item or its current value. If the item
is a submenu, numeric value or picklist, a
→ will be shown to the right of the item to indicate that activating
that item moves you down another menu level or an edit screen. Action items have nothing displayed to the
right of the item since there is no “next level” associated with them.
3.5.5 Menu Syntax. When referring to item locations within the menu hierarchy, it is convenient to describe them
by their path. Each menu level will be separated by a “>” (indicating the > or Enter/Run key must be pressed
at this point to move down a level). Since Menu Mode always remains within the Main Menu, this manual will
always show the path beginning with the first item picked from the Main Menu level. For example, to set the
IEEE-488 bus address to 13, the following path string will be used:
Utilities > IEEE-488 > Bus Setup > Address > 13
To execute this function, you must first enter Menu Mode by pressing the Menu key.
3.6 TEXT MODE OPERATION
In Text Mode, the current measurements are displayed in a numeric format with optional fast-responding bargraph
readouts. Since the 4530 can measure more than just average power, most modes have a number of measurements
associated with them. The flexible text presentation allows you to view key average power measurements in a tradi-
tional format or a tabular format to show a larger number of items on the screen.
Figure 3-12. Text Mode (Example)