APPLICATION NOTES FOR THE ma COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE MONITORPUBLISHED BY IFR SYSTEMS, INC. WICHITA, KS 67215, Copyright ©1906 by IFA SYSTEMS, INC. Al ght reseved. Pited_in tho Untag ial of America. No pat of this ‘eprodued, stored in a ratleval eyetom o transmitted in any orm or by ony ener eeceoces moe eeic Photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. " ‘ Manual Part Number: 1002-5001-500 (Original Printing: daly 1986page 67 29 1011 00 var 190 ma 228 zat 2020 BLE OF CONTENTS mrrooucTION HOWTOUSE THIS BOOK RECEIVER MEASUREMENTS. ‘Check ecaloseors& xe wibout cpa rai case Measuieg aul requency reponse wihtone sweep Mossuing 1268 SINAD,Pecavr Corer Frequency and sation Acoptance Bandits Checking IF Banh & Symmetry Facer RF fer algnman, igh acuaey FM deviton messurenats sg the Bese nuit assuring ouput very ow power arias Messing varemiter harmonics Staggain measurements wh he epectumanayer ‘rain aeiver deserse due ema arent ‘narmociton TRANSMITTER MEASUREMENTS cones Moassing otter end sartonosln TF awichos onto $58 8 ACSB sig Synctoning Sinlas Transites ANTENNA & TRANSUISSION LINE MEASUREMENTS Mosaing Arto lation “Teng Atenas for Minimum VSWR Cable Fut Location and Finding Cable Sb Logins easucieg Certo Frequency Iearion Los and 48 Poison ‘caves Transmiercavty agree Bandpaae Ban ject opener agent Measungrecaver deenee inact system Meassng eciver ulation tT Fc aquenis Messing T role suppression at PacroquncyApplication TITLE box This Application Note book contains actual field applications of the IFR FM/AM-1800 Communications Service Monitor. APPLICATION NOTE HOWTO USE THIS BOOK gg, Overview... highighis of appcationDETAILED SETUP IFR_ FM/AM-1500_ HOW TO USE THIS BOOK +1 sp This facing page shows connection Infomation and. the postion of Those contol, readouts or ndeators shown in BLUE atect the operation in this pancuar application. ‘SYMBOL EXPLANATION & Denctesa contr! recuting adjusimentuingthe appication. | + Denotes aswtch ruiinga change of pasion dung the appicaton,Check local oscillators & xtals without opening radio case ‘CONCEPT “There i nating fancy or complicated about an ductive | pickup. The conc i o connec the hgh senstivty Specrum analyzer 209 to an ariena that ony ck Up a smal porcertage of signal, cb vous you do want fo look at al ofthe signals at ar present in your shop. A 2 tum pup bop works wel rom about 100 kz through VHF. With te spectrum analyzer ae 9 one of the wider dapersonsetings, you can quickly determine the cperaon othe al oselators. EXAMPLE ‘Supgoeo that a hand-held VHF radio optating at 150 Mie ‘omen acs you bench. You now fo experince tha ‘rbabiy has at F on of ear 10:7 MHZ. yu vat the fayrer corte FREQUENCY at 1600000 MHE andthe ANALYeer DiGPéFislon to 6. Mir por hoteonsl Sion, the analyze wt sean fom 125 fo 175 Miz. Met aos radiate enough o pick up the high frequency local oxcaor tae) win toe SMIFFER LOOP anywhere coset he as. ‘he HiFteq LO, should show up about wo vio 1 te let ort the contr requoncy of 150 Nz. Exact equency 1 any egal you can aso onthe analyzes eany measured by posing tie FREQUENCY Uni the unizown signal wen 10° KHZ, hen use the err mete 1 get an exact vad Checking th Le Freq eal xc would be jst a ey by toting the FREQUENCY ofthe analyzer on 107 Mie and ANALY BISPR fo 2M Now the araijzor wil ewoop From 37 to 117 MMe. The Lo Freq oxclaor would ypealy be bout 225 dens ASS kz) above or below centr. The 'SMIFFER LOOP is ss sensi atthe lower oquondes fn the Lo Frog oscar col i usaly shied Det then HF cols so you may have 1 hit around th case It fo Frtho signa APPLICATION [= A SNIFFER LOOP let you | use the high senstvty of the spectrum analyzer to show you it the local esciatore are running | ‘without opening the case. Seaton orem aos. SHPFER LOOP we sto dou to o om Le a ee Nts Gree os SMPANG.toeecn eveat_| aa ec, Yu may eee COLON CODE Som oe wing Scataa honky sncunchomerco [A SNIFFER LOOP 's such a usoul tool when atached fo your spectrum analyzor ‘and tracking generator that yeu wonder how youve done without ASHEPER COP re mom an ert wo ue cit ison ae gh ca Wal nas Boman oe See es ANToW p ‘SNIFFER LOOP diagram ——_(*#9#¥n 14" kopbetabow VE)DETAILED SETUP Check local oscillators & xtals IFR_ FM/AM-1500 without opening radio case Connect SNIFFER LOOP to ANTENNA port ATTENUATOR chron i porias Couple loop to the radiating coll to get at least a -80d8m response on the analyzer screen. -80d8im will quist the FMVAM-1500's receiver section suficiently to get a good FREQ ERROR reading once you have centered the signal near the center of the screen at an ANALY DISPR setting of less than 10K. REMEMBER. you are dealing with 2 recelvers in the 1800, the spectrum analyzer and the monitor receiver. Both use the same front end and connect to the outside word via the ANTENNA por. CAUTION: When using the SNIFFER LOOP on transmitters, bring the loop towards the radio after keying. Dorit couple closely untlyou see the signal on the analyzer to avoid overtoading or possibietront end burn out o6p the signal on the analyzer screen below the top (-30d8m) to prevent spurious generation due to overloading.DETAILED SETUP Check local oscillators & xtals IFR FM/AM-1500 without opening radio case Connect SNIFFER LOOP to ANTENNA port ATTENUATOR hr Aiponins Couple loop to the radiating coll to get at least a -80d8m response on the analyzer screen. -80d8m will quist the FMVAM-1500's. receiver section suticiently to get a good FREQ ERROR reading once you have centered the signal near the center of the screen at an ANALY DISPR setting of less than 10K. REMEMBER. you are dealing with 2 recelvers in the 1600, the spectrum analyzer and the monitor receiver. Both use the same front end and connect to the outside word via the ANTENNA por. CAUTION: When using the SNIFFER LOOP on transmitters, bring the loop towards the radio after keying. Dorit couple closely untlyou see the signal onthe analyzer to avoid overfoading or possibie front end burn out o6p the signal on the analyzer screen below the top (-30dEm) to prevent spurious generation due to overloading.Measuring audio frequency response with tone sweep APPLICATION NOTE The 1500 Tone sweep menu can simply audio frequency response testing by stepping] }00 Hz range quickly in octave steps so that recei sr de-emphasis or \Se may be checked, It we set the au output at 300 Hz tol the 8 vical dion ofthe scope, then each octave increase in frequency shouldbe hall as many divisions W the recover audlo output moots the standard 638. por octave de-emphasis curve. PROCEDURE SeLDISPLAY loTONES Key ENTER, MENU, A, A. this should rng upthe TONE SWEEP MENU onthe CAT, Key ENTER, 4, >, thecursorwilnow lash under START. FREQ. Solthe requency 0 300. > wilmove te curor'o STOP FREQ. Setitat 9000, >, mevesthe cursor onto INCRomenial STEP. Keytho A untlt roads X. Inthe next postion enterthefactor20, his ndleaes that at each step ‘ho roquency willbe doubled (an ocave) SelthoINCRemantal RATE 10 6000 moo. Tostartthe TONE SWEEP running, use the flowing sequence, ENTER, EXECUTE, 2ND, TSWP, 4, * (oop), ENTER. ‘TONE generator 1 wil begin automaticaly stepping every 5 seconds through the folowing frequencies: 00, 600, 1200, 2400, 3000 Hr. ‘The oop (e) repeats the function. Neat, but not real handy unless you hhave a ploter forte output. Even wih a poter you would sil have to take the 608 per octave decrease iro account. "Now, How | top the dam thing? ‘nd, STEP witha the cle andleavethetone on Now, wil step the frequency up an octave ata ime. (900 to 2400) you step to 300 Hr and use the VERT VERNIER to fll the scope ‘withthe 200 Hz sine wave, each sitoko of tho * kay wil double the ‘requeney which should cut tho audio amplitude in ha ts the de- femmphasis curve. The top step to 9000 Hz gives you a final check at the top ofthe auclo passband to check for excessive rol off even, ‘though tent an octave step. SUS HEEB Peak to peak levels ‘tooriee ee, uired to conform 24o0He= 1 dr to 6dB per octave ‘s000H2= 08d. de-emphasis curve ‘Once programmed, this furcon wil remain in the TONE SWEEP [MENU as ITEM #04 for future use. (We selected fem 4 50 8 worn bbechanged.as easly when you calup the men)