When choosing an RF instrument, it is easy to get lost in the many specifications that vendors use to characterize an instrument’s performance. Moreover, in a world where wireless technologies are ...

In this month’s column, we take a look at a short-distance two-way ranging system using a 5.8-GHz carrier to supply not only precise and accurate distance measurements but also complementary ...

Phase coherence, that is a stable phase relationship between signals, is essential when making measurements that require more than one RF output. While this was once primarily required when evaluating ...

As the number of higher-throughput applications grows, so does the need for wider bandwidth and network coverage in wireless systems. Given limited spectrum allocation, wireless communication ...

One extremely important yet not widely known characteristic of today’s high-performance RF signal analyzers is their use of a range of intermediate frequency (IF) filter bandwidth settings. IF ...

The defining achievement in drone operations will be the mastery of routine beyond-visual-line-of-sight flight. For engineers ...

Today’s RF test instruments are highly complex products and are therefore characterized by a wide variety of specifications. We have presented a three-part series on a wide array of RF instrument ...