HP 8596 Spectrum Analyzer Data Collection

[LV_rookie]

Greetings,

 I am doing a project to read data from "HP 8596E (Agilent/KeySight 8596E)" through MIL-STD-461E, CE102 standard. The program should plot the spectrum as well as save it to a spreadsheet. As I understand from the requirement, the data should be tested from 10 KHz to 10 MHz (section 5.5). I sat my program to start from 10000Hz with an increment of 100 (for 400 times) because the maximum points that I can read from the analyzer through “TRA?;” is 401. So the total turn to be 50000Hz (10000 + (400x100)) then I repeat it again starting from the new frequency 50000Hz and do the same thing again and again till I reach 10MHz. Unfortunately this take really long time to do it this way, so I was wondering if there is another way that I can us the command “TRA?” for more than 401or if I should repeat “TRA?” and run in parallel the frequency increment?

Thanks

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

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@LV_rookie wrote:

Greetings,

 I am doing a project to read data from "HP 8596E (Agilent/KeySight 8596E)" through MIL-STD-461E, CE102 standard. The program should plot the spectrum as well as save it to a spreadsheet. As I understand from the requirement, the data should be tested from 10 KHz to 10 MHz (section 5.5). I sat my program to start from 10000Hz with an increment of 100 (for 400 times) because the maximum points that I can read from the analyzer through “TRA?;” is 401. So the total turn to be 50000Hz (10000 + (400x100)) then I repeat it again starting from the new frequency 50000Hz and do the same thing again and again till I reach 10MHz. Unfortunately this take really long time to do it this way, so I was wondering if there is another way that I can us the command “TRA?” for more than 401or if I should repeat “TRA?” and run in parallel the frequency increment?

Thanks

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Not sure why you are asking here.

The information would either be in the manual for the instrument, or you can contact Keysight.