Specifications

Gating
Isolation housing
Isolation housing
Simplified transceiver
LNA
Gating
Controller
RF cable
RF cable
RF cable
Customer
furnished
antenna
PA
TR
Innovative
Applications
Fast and accurate
RF subsystem
for antenna
measurements
Challenges of antenna and radar cross-section (RCS) measurements
• Many data points must be collected, resulting in long test times
• Far-field and RCS measurements, signals can be close to the noise floor of the
test receiver, resulting in noisy measurements
• Large installed-software base exists for 8530A antenna receivers, which have been
discontinued and are no longer supported
PNA-X-based antenna solutions provide:
• Flexibility in system design: choose a standard PNA-X or an N5264A low-cost
dedicated measurement receiver based on PNA-X hardware
• Fast measurements: 400,000 data points per second simultaneously on five receivers,
yielding three to five times improvement in test times compared to the 8530A
• Large data collections with 500 million point circular FIFO data buffer
• Excellent measurement sensitivity via selectable IF bandwidths and point-
averaging mode
• Built-in 8530A code emulation
for easy migration
AUT
Scanner controller
LAN
PNA-X
network analyzer
Source 2 out
B/R2
A/R2
Delta
elevation
Delta
Azimuth
Sum
R1/R2
PNA-X configured for radar
cross-section measurements.
PNA-X configured for
near-field measurements.
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