Handheld cable and antenna analyser

19 January 2011 Test & Measurement

The ZVH from Rohde & Schwarz is a portable cable and antenna analyser especially designed to facilitate the installation of antenna stations.

Convenient wizards help users measure antenna cables, filters and amplifiers, and documentation is enabled by simple tools for generating test reports. Two frequency ranges, from 300 kHz to 3,6 GHz or 8 GHz, are provided to help network operators, infrastructure manufacturers and their service providers install and maintain mobile radio antennas.

The built-in wizards allow even users who have no experience with test and measurement equipment to, for example, check cable faults using the distance-to-fault (DTF) measurement or measure antenna matching and isolation. Network operators can adapt the wizards in the lab to their individual test report formats and make them available to their service providers for use at the antenna site. Predefined test reports in various file formats make it easy to demonstrate that assignments were properly executed.

The ZVH has a dynamic range of 100 dB, easily fulfilling the manufacturer’s guidelines of >90 dB required for repeater measurements. The handheld analyser replaces conventional test setups consisting of a signal generator and a spectrum analyser. The built-in DC bias supplies power to active DUTs, such as amplifiers, at both test ports via the RF cable. This function is especially useful for tower-mounted amplifiers (TMA).

For more information contact Trevor Grundlingh, Protea Electronics, +27 (0)11 719 5700, [email protected], www.protea.co.za

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