
Measuring System Performance: Measuring Signal Levels
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Tilt Compensation
The Tilt compensation feature allows you to enter the cable loss for a
particular section of coax and then, using the scan display, you can adjust
the gain of the amplifier to compensate for this loss. You can turn Tilt
compensation on or off in the TILT submenu.
The SDA-5000 enables you to designate up to nine Tilt channels.
See Also
½ "Edit Channel Plan" in Chapter 3 explains how to designate
Tilt channels (page 43).
The slope for tilt is a straight line from the lowest (in frequency) to the
highest designated tilt channel. The low and high frequency channels are
the pilot channels. Pilot carriers’ levels establish the slope of the tilt graph
that you see on the LCD.
You can enter Tilt measurement mode through the Navigator menu or by
pressing the Tilt mode key.
Fig. 6-3 shows the TILT screen. Use the LO and HI soft keys to select the LO
and HI pilot channels for your Tilt adjustment.
Use the icons in this screen as follows:
The LO or HI icons will darken when either is selected.
Pressing this icon brings up the following three useful functions,
then returns the main TILT menu.
Reference Level allows you to use the up and down diamond
keys to make discrete adjustments to the reference level within
in pre-set range(+/-).
Scale allows you to adjust the dB/div on the vertical scales,
using the up and down diamond keys to scroll through the pre-
set values for best presentation on the screen.
Establishes an optimized Autoscale presentation, based on the
previous two settings.
NOTE: The Reference Value level is limited by the units
selected and the Scale setting.
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