User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 1 Getting Started With The Test Set
- 2 2 Measurements Considerations
- 3 3 Testing FM Radios
- FM Off The Air Monitoring/Determining Unknown Tran...
- FM Output Power, Deviation, and Frequency/Frequenc...
- FM Deviation and Symmetry Measurement
- FM Microphone Sensitivity and Modulation Limiting ...
- FM CTCSS Encoder Frequency and Deviation Measureme...
- FM CDCSS Coding and Deviation Measurements
- FM DTMF Encodes and Deviation Measurement
- FM Audio Distortion Measurement
- FM Harmonics and Spurious Output Measurement
- FM Audio Output Power Measurement
- FM SINAD, Receiver Center Frequency, and Modulatio...
- FM Variation Of Sensitivity With Signal Frequency ...
- FM 20 dB Quieting Sensitivity Measurement
- FM Critical and Maximum Squelch Sensitivity Measur...
- FM CTCSS Sensitivity and Bandwidth Measurement
- FM CDCSS Sensitivity Measurement
- FM Audio Frequency Response Measurement
- FM Audio Distortion Measurement
- FM Spurious Response Attenuation Measurement
- 4 4 Testing AM Radios
- AM Off The Air Monitoring/Determining Unknown Tran...
- AM Output Power, Deviation, and Frequency/Frequenc...
- AM Microphone Sensitivity and Modulation Limiting ...
- AM Audio Distortion Measurement
- AM Harmonics and Spurious Output Measurement
- AM Envelope Display Measurement
- AM Audio Output Power Measurement
- AM Sensitivity Measurement
- AM AGC Measurement
- AM Squelch Sensitivity Measurement
- AM Audio Frequency Response Measurement
- AM Audio Distortion Measurement
- AM Spurious Response Attenuation Measurement
- 5 5 Testing SSB Radios
- 6 6 Spectrum Analyzer Measurements
- Measuring Transmitter High/Low Power Signals
- Field Strength Measurements
- Analyzing External Transmitter Inter-modulation Di...
- Basic Measurements with the Tracking Generator
- Antenna Return Loss (VSWR) Measurement & Tuning
- 1/4 Wave Coaxial Filter Tuning (Swept)
- Cable Fault Locations
- Passive Cavity Insertion and Return Loss Measureme...
- Repeater System Effective Sensitivity Measurement
- 7 7 Oscilloscope Measurements
- 8 8 Configuring for Measurements
- 9 9 References
- 10 10 HP 8920A Specifications
- RF Frequency
- Output
- Spectral Purity
- FM
- AM
- TDMA Signal Generator
- Frequency
- Output Level
- RF Power Measurement
- RF Frequency Measurement
- FM Measurement
- AM Measurement
- SSB Measurement
- TDMA Analyzer
- Frequency Measurement
- AC Voltage Measurement
- DC Voltage Measurement
- Distortion Measurement
- SINAD Measurement
- Audio Filters
- Frequency
- Tracking Generator
- Adjacent Channel Power
- TCXO (Standard)
- OCXO (Option 001)
- 11 11 HP 8920B Specifications
- RF Frequency
- Output
- Spectral Purity
- FM
- AM
- TDMA Signal Generator
- Frequency
- Output Level
- RF Power Measurement
- RF Frequency Measurement
- FM Measurement
- AM Measurement
- SSB Measurement
- TDMA Analyzer
- Frequency Measurement
- AC Voltage Measurement
- DC Voltage Measurement
- Distortion Measurement
- SINAD Measurement
- Audio Filters
- Frequency
- Tracking Generator
- Adjacent Channel Power
- TCXO (Standard)
- OCXO (Option 001)

FM Receivers
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On the Radio set the Receiver’s Controls as follows:
11 Set power to ON.
12 If required, set frequency to the same value as step 4
13 If required, set CTCSS tone frequency to the same value as step 4
14 Set RF Gain to maximum (if equipped).
15 Set squelch control to minimum (if equipped).
16 Set the volume control until the AC Level reads 100% of the Receiver’s
specified audio output.
Refer to the audio output specifications for the receiver being tested.
17 Verify Receiver’s squelch is closed.
On the Test Set using the knob and data entry keys:
18 Set Amplitude to -137 dBm.
19 Slowly increase the Amplitude until the squelch remains open and the SI-
NAD indicator shows 10 dB (minimum).
CTCSS Sensitivity is displayed as Amplitude as shown.
• Record this level.
20 Set Amplitude to −47 dBm.
21 Slowly increase the AFGEN2 Freq in 0.1 Hz increments until the squelch
just closes.
• Record the frequency.
22 Slowly decrease the AFGEN2 Freq in 0.1 Hz increments until the squelch
To Screen
RX TEST
AC Level
Filter 1
50Hz HPF
Filter 2
15kHz HPF
Atten Hold
On/Off
Ext Load R
8.00
Ω
RF GEN
RF ANL
AF ANL
SCOPE
SPEC ANL
ENCODER
DECODER
RADIO INT
More
W
dB
0.6321
SINAD
RF Gen Freq
145.280000
MHz
Amplitude
0.282
uV
Output Port
RF Out/Dupl
AFGen1 Freq
1.0000
kHz
AFGen1 To
3.00
kHz
FM
AFGen2 Freq
100.0
Hz
AFGen2 To
5.00
Hz
FM
011.16
Avg
24
CTCSS
Squelch Sensi-
tivity