Satellite and Radio Test Equipment

Measurement confidence for next-generation secure satellite and radio communications.

Whether you are moving into digital radio implementation or deploying mission-critical satellite systems, our innovative test solutions deliver the measurement confidence you need in your designs. Our signal generation and analysis tools provide the unique insight necessary for the development and debugging of modern communication systems with time-synchronous, multi-domain analysis across your functional components.

  • Real-Time Signal Analyzers:  Validate your transmitter design with confidence using the unique features of the RSA Series Real-Time Signal Analyzers, including the DPX™ Live RF spectrum (analyzer) display and frequency mask trigger.
  • Oscilloscope-based Solutions: Characterize wideband transmitter designs with SignalVu Vector Signal Analysis (VSA) Software integrated onto your Performance Oscilloscope, providing up to 33 GHz bandwidth measurements.
  • Arbitrary Waveform Generators:  Easily generate digital and analog baseband, IF, RF and microwave signals with the versatile AWG Series Arbitrary Waveform Generators to stimulate your design during validation.  The unique RFXpress® software simplifies creation of very complex signals.
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TDR Impedance Measurements: A Foundation for Signal Integrity

At today’s high operating frequencies, anything that affects your signal’s rise time, pulse width, timing, jitter or noise content can impact reliability at the system level.

Preventing Illegal Colors

To prevent the undesired impact of color gamut violations, Tektronix has developed several displays that simplify assessment of proper gamut compliance.

Critical RF Measurements in Cable, Satellite and Terrestrial DTV Systems

The secret to maintaining reliable and high-quality services over different digital television transmission systems is to focus on critical factors that may compromise the integrity of the system. This application note describes those critical RF test measurements which help to detect such problems before viewers lose their service and picture completely.

SignalVu-PC Demonstration Guide (with Stored Signals) – Bringing the Benefits of Wideband Vector Signal Analysis to your PC

Understand the benefits of SignalVu-PC Offline Vector Signal Analysis Software when using stored files from supported Tektronix Real-Time Signal Analyzers or Oscilloscopes.

Radio/Satellite Communications Solutions Fact Sheet

This brief fact sheet provides an overview of the challenges and solutions for Radio/Satellite Communications.

Testing Modern Radios

Radio Communications: Challenges and solutions for designing Software Defined Radios that employ frequency hopping techniques

Unleashing UHF Nonlinear Measurements Using Active Load Pull and Waveform Engineering Techniques

This paper provides an overview of some emerging UHF power amplifier markets and provides a discussion regarding the evolution of nonlinear measurements.

Worldwide Spectrum Allocations Poster

Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers Poster

RF Signal Monitoring and Spectrum Management Using the Tektronix RSA3000B Series Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer

RF signal monitoring and surveillance applications have special equipment requirements that often go well beyond the typical radio receiver or spectrum analyzer. The Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer (RTSA) has many superior capabilities for signal monitoring and spectrum management. In this application note we will see how the performance and features of the Tektronix RSA3000B Series instruments, and particularly the signal discovery power of Tektronix DPX™ technology, are focused on spectrum management. We will particularly examine Digital Phosphor (DPX) displays as they reveal time-varying signals.

Project 25 - Civil Defense Radio

Tektronix Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers and Wireless Field Test tools have comprehensive support for a variety of Project 25 radio needs. The RTSA can replace multiple obsolete instruments including the Modulation Analyzer, Audio Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Power Meter and Oscilloscope with its integrated support for Project 25 radio measurement standards.
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Challenges and Solutions for Testing Frequency Hopping Radios Webinar

This webinar provides an overview for the design and test topics of radios with frequency hopping techniques which have been gaining popularity in today’s crowded RF spectrum world. This includes typical test challenges for frequency hopping radio designs and how Tektronix solutions improve insight into your designs and speed time-to-market.

Fast, Low Level Spurious Search with Tektronix Real Time Signal Analyzers

Historically, long test times have been required to perform low-level spur searches on high-performance RF and microwave transmitters.  In this webinar, learn how the unique wideband architecture of the Tektronix Real Time Signal Analyzers provides a breakthrough approach for this critical test, resulting in faster time to results and a significantly reduced test budget.

 

High Power Nonlinear Measurements Webinar

Accurate non-linear device characterization is the key to designing amplifiers at theoretical operating efficiencies. As traditional models have been limited by measurement systems that cannot operate at high power/gamma ratios, measurements using open-loop active harmonic load pull enable complete measurements and emulate the power and impedances the devices will see in the real world. This webinar discusses this new measurement technology.

RSA3000 Spectrogram Overview Video

This video shows how the spectrogram view on the RSA3000 enables you to seamlessly capture and display long time records of RF signals that change over time.

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