Spectrum Management

Accuracy and insight all across the spectrum.

Solve today's demanding spectrum management, monitoring and surveillance challenges with world-class instruments for detection, identification, mapping, and hunting down sources of interference. DPX™ Live RF spectrum display will change the way you search and discover elusive signals for your spectrum management and surveillance testing.

Product	Frequency Range	Maximum Acquisition Bandwidth
H600 / SA2600	10 kHz - 6.2 GHz	20 MHz
RSA3000	DC to 8 GHz	36 MHz
RSA5000	1 Hz to 6.2 GHz	85 MHz
RSA6000	9 kHz - 20 GHz	110 MHz

	Product Series
Choose the Right Platform for Your Jitter Measurements This document will explain some essential jitter terms, and then go on to discuss jitter measurements and the tools best suited for evaluating and quantifying jitter, when working with serial data communication architectures.	DSA8300
Advanced Spectrum Management with the RSA6100A Series Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer In this application note we will focus on how the RSA6000 Series changes the way advanced spectrum management is accomplished.	RSA5000
Fundamentals of Real-Time Spectrum Analysis This primer describes how Real-Time Spectrum Analysis works and provides a basic understanding of how it can be used to solve many measurement problems associated with capturing and analyzing modern RF signals.	RSA5000
Spectrum Management/Surveillance Solutions Fact Sheet This fact sheet covers how our DPX Live RF spectrum display helps you search and discover elusive signals.
Troubleshooting and Characterizing Wide Band RF Systems Using a Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer This application note examines the characteristics of modern RF systems and demonstrates the use of Tektronix RSA6100A Series of Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers (RTSAs) in troubleshooting and characterizing them. Basic vector and spectrum measurements of transmitters, troubleshooting high-bandwidth systems and characterizing wide band DPD systems will be covered.	RSA5000
Spybusters Case Study Learn how Spybusters used the DPX™ Live RF spectrum display to ensure their clients' offices are free of listening devices.	RSA3000
Spybusters Case Study Learn how Spybusters used Real-Time Spectrum Analyzers from Tektronix to ensure their clients' offices are free of listening devices. The Live RF with DPX(tm) spectrum display on the RTSAs instantly reveals the RF environment.
Calibrate+ Characterize and Emulate systems using RFXpress® in AWG Series System designers and device manufacturers so long have been using one set of instruments for creating digitally modulated RF signals for testing their device, and another set of instruments to characterize their system. With high bandwidth and high sampling rate Tektronix AWG7122B along with RFXpress® software, test signals and device characterization can now be done with one set of general purpose instruments up to 9.6 GHz.	AWG5000
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.	RSA3000
Classify Digital RF Signals In The Field Microwaves & RF

		Product Series
Your Guide to Selecting the Right Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer	Today's RF signals change over time, often unpredictably. To effectively characterize these signals, engineers need a tool that can trigger on both known and unpredictable events, capture the signals seamlessly into memory, and analyze the behavior of frequency, amplitude, and modulation parameters over time.	RSA3000

		Product Series
Introducing RTSA with DPX Technology Demo	This tutorial describes the DPX™ Spectrum display and how it addresses situations involving brief, intermittent, complex and coincident signals. Also covered are the methods for achieving its key performance specifications: 1> Detection and measurements on a signal as short as 24 ms and 2> 48,828 spectral transforms per second, compressed into a display that is even easier to read than a conventional spectrum trace.	RSA6000
Frequency Mask Trigger Video	This video shows the simple operation of the Frequency Mask Trigger function on the RSA3000 series spectrum analyzer. Unlike power level triggering, use Frequency Mask Triggering to isolate small signals in the presence of larger ones, or events where a signal changes frequency, but not power.	RSA3000
Pulse Analysis Using the RSA6100 and DPX Video	This video demonstrates the ease of use of the pulse analysis capability on the RSA3000 series spectrum analyzer. With over 20 automatic scalar and vector pulse measurement, the RSA3000 simplifies the analysis of pulsed radio and radar signals.	RSA3000
Spectrum Management Overview Webinar	In our new webinar on RF spectrum management, we discuss real-time spectrum analysis tools, and how they have become the game-changer in spectrum management. Duration: 32 minutes.	RSA5000
Transient Signal Analysis Video	This video shows an example of how to isolate and analyze time and frequency varying signals using the RSA3000 series spectrum analyzer.	RSA5000
Pulse Analysis Using the RSA3000 Video	This video demonstrates the ease of use of the pulse analysis capability on the RSA3000 series spectrum analyzer. With over 20 automatic scalar and vector pulse measurement, the RSA3000 simplifies the analysis of pulsed radio and radar signals.	RSA3000
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.	RSA3000
RF Spectrum Management: Field Applications Webinar	This is a series of three webinars focused on RF Spectrum Management. Part 1 serves as a basis that focuses on real-time technology applied to spectrum management. Part 2 focuses on spectrum monitoring and signal analysis, then discuss some examples of monitoring applications. Part 3 looks at some of the challenges of fielding wireless technologies, and also looks at discovery of signals, locating of signals, and classifying of signals.

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