R&S PR100 Portable Receiver Manual

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2008 Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG 81671 Munich, Germany Printed in Germany Subject to change Data without tolerance limits is not binding. R&S is a registered trademark of Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG. Trade names are trademarks of the owners. The following abbreviations are used throughout this manual: R&S PR100 is abbreviated as R&S PR100.

Index:

Index:................................................................................................................................................ 3 1 Performance Check .................................................................................................................. 8

1.1 Symbols and safety labels.................................................................................... 9 1.2 Tags and their meaning........................................................................................ 9 1.3 Basic safety instructions .................................................................................... 10

2 Quality certificate................................................................................................................... 12 3 EC certificate.......................................................................................................................... 13 4 Support center address ........................................................................................................... 14 5 Operating principle................................................................................................................. 15 6 Set-up ..................................................................................................................................... 20

6.1 Front view.......................................................................................................... 20 6.2 Top view ............................................................................................................ 21 6.3 Unpacking the instrument.................................................................................. 21 6.4 Setting up the instrument ................................................................................... 22 6.5 Inserting the battery ........................................................................................... 23 6.6 Connecting to the power supply ........................................................................ 23 6.7 Charging the Battery.......................................................................................... 24 6.8 Switching on the monitoring receiver................................................................ 25 6.9 Ambient and operating conditions..................................................................... 26 6.10 Preventive maintenance ..................................................................................... 26 6.11 Monitoring receiver connectors ......................................................................... 26 6.12 Software update ................................................................................................. 33

6.12.1 Option code activation ....................................................................................... 34 7 Configuration Menus ............................................................................................................. 35

7.1 RX Configuration Menu .................................................................................... 35 7.1.1 General............................................................................................................... 35 7.1.2 Antenna (only with option Field Strength Measurement) ................................. 39 7.1.3 Tone ................................................................................................................... 41 7.1.4 Measure.............................................................................................................. 42 7.1.5 BFO (CW only) ................................................................................................. 44 7.1.6 Direct Conversion Threshold............................................................................. 45 7.1.7 Inputs / Outputs.................................................................................................. 45

7.2 Scan Configuration Menu.................................................................................. 46 7.2.1 Frequency Scan.................................................................................................. 46

7.3 Memory Scan..................................................................................................... 48 7.3.1 Scan Options...................................................................................................... 50

7.4 Display............................................................................................................... 53 7.4.1 RX Screen .......................................................................................................... 53 7.4.2 IF-PAN Screen................................................................................................... 54 7.4.3 RF-PAN Screen ................................................................................................. 56 7.4.4 Waterfall Screen ................................................................................................ 57

7.5 General Configuration Menu............................................................................. 60 7.5.1 General............................................................................................................... 60 7.5.2 Local Settings .................................................................................................... 61 7.5.3 Display............................................................................................................... 62 7.5.4 Keys ................................................................................................................... 62 7.5.5 Audio ................................................................................................................. 64

7.5.6 LAN ................................................................................................................... 66 7.6 Memory Configuration Menu............................................................................ 69

7.6.1 Direct Save & Auto Save................................................................................... 69 7.7 Antenna Configuration Menu ............................................................................ 71

8 SCPI Interface ........................................................................................................................ 72 8.1 Document Outline.............................................................................................. 72 8.2 Legend ............................................................................................................... 72

Abbreviations Used................................................................................................................ 72 9 SCPI Commands .................................................................................................................... 73

9.1 SCPI introduction .............................................................................................. 73 9.1.1 Common Command Structure ........................................................................... 74 9.1.2 Device-Specific Command Structure ................................................................ 74 9.1.3 Structure of a command line.............................................................................. 75 9.1.4 Responses to queries.......................................................................................... 76 9.1.5 Parameters.......................................................................................................... 77 Syntax Elements..................................................................................................................... 79

9.2 Status Reporting................................................................................................. 79 Structure of an SCPI status register ....................................................................................... 80 9.2.1 Description of the status registers...................................................................... 83 9.2.2 Use of the Status Reporting System .................................................................. 91 9.2.3 Resetting values of the status reporting system................................................. 93

9.3 Error Messages .................................................................................................. 93 9.4 Commands Description ..................................................................................... 98

9.4.1 Notation ............................................................................................................. 98 9.4.2 Common Commands ......................................................................................... 99

10 Instrument Behaviour ...................................................................................... 101 10.1 Error Situations ................................................................................................ 102 10.2 Ranging and Rounding .................................................................................... 102 10.3 Value Representation....................................................................................... 103 10.4 Default Values ............................................................