Keysight Technologies, Inc. today announced that its FieldFox handheld combination analyzers offer a comprehensive and accurate solution for satellite ground station maintenance in both the commercial and aerospace and defense markets. FieldFox quickly ensures system performance with a high level of confidence to help expedite the installation and maintenance of satellite ground stations.
Since satellite ground stations have long-range communication links, they must provide high uplink transmit power, receive very low downlink signal level, and compensate for link variation caused by weather and weather changes. the satellite/terrestrial antenna. Ground stations contain a multitude of sensitive components and subsystems (eg antenna subsystems, waveguides, coaxial cables, filters, LNAs, LNBs, BUCs, HPAs, and TWTAs) that need to be checked during installation and maintenance. You also need to monitor the spectrum performance of the entire system. These tasks are even more difficult when ground stations are located in remote areas.
FieldFox handheld analyzers offer the accuracy, frequency coverage (up to 26,5 GHz), and all-in-one functionality (for example, spectrum analyzer, full 2-port vector network analyzer, and power meter) needed to perform a variety of benchtop quality measurements in harsh test environments. Now with the introduction of Measurement Option 208, FieldFox is the perfect tool for conducting satellite communication field tests.
FieldFox Option 208 verifies frequency converters installed in satellite ground stations and performs the most common maintenance tasks. Users can even use FieldFox for cable and antenna testing, vector network analysis such as S-parameters, power measurements, spectrum analysis, and interference detection; all of them critical aspects for effective maintenance and troubleshooting in satellite ground stations. Since all of this is performed using a single instrument, users no longer need to transport multiple test devices to the field. FieldFox Option 212, also introduced today, expands cable testing beyond single core coaxial cables to provide information on differential device performance. Option 212 allows FieldFox to measure the reflection behavior of 1-port differential devices, such as twisted pair cables or printed circuit boards. Furthermore, it allows FieldFox to perform time domain measurements of differential devices under mixed mode operation.
Also introduced today is the new Data Link software for the FieldFox family of analyzers. The software integrates SCPI command, control and remote viewing consoles, as well as allowing users to more easily control and monitor remote instruments and automate test processes. Satellite operators, for example, can now monitor the spectrum behavior of satellite communication links from a control center.
