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Power Reference Oscillator Level Adjustment
Agilent E4418B/E4419B Service Guide 3-7
Note The power meter may be returned to the nearest Agilent Technologies
office to have the power reference oscillator checked and/or adjusted.
Figure 3-3: Adjustment Setup
For this adjustment the following mathematical assumptions are made:
Equation 1:
can be manipulated to give the following:
Equation 2:
by using the following assumptions:
The error in doing this is:
So if , that is, then the error can
be ignored. In practice and . The error is less
than 0.01%.
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