Boonton 4540 Peak Power Meter Quick Start - Manual (Page 5)

4540 Power Meter
Quick Start Guide
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4540 GETTING STARTED
Congratulations and thank you for choosing Boonton. Your new 4540 Power Meter
ranks among the most powerful instruments in its class. Our new family of Boonton
CW and Peak Power Meters currently consists of the single channel 4541 and the
dual-channel 4542. For simplification both instruments are referred to in this manual
as 4540.
4540 Front Panel
The Boonton 4540 Series Power Meter is the instrument of choice for capturing,
displaying and analyzing RF power in both the time and statistical domains.
Applications include pulsed RF signals such as radar, TDMA and GSM,
pseudorandom or noise-like signals such as CDMA, WLAN and WiMAX.
The 4540 Series is available as a single or dual channel RF Power Meter that can
measure modulated or CW signals using peak and average Boonton Power sensors.
The 4540 Series has three operating modes: Pulse, Statistical, and Modulated/CW.
Features include:
• High Bandwidth Wide Dynamic Range Sensors
• Intuitive User Interface
• 4” color LCD display
• 200 psec. time resolution
• Statistical analysis including CCDF
• Text view of 2x 15 time and power measurements parameters simultaneously
• GPIB, USB and LAN standard