Control Menu

The Control menu starts and stops measurements in several ways. Some of the menu entries are duplicated in the Control Toolbar.

These operations affect the selected measurement unless noted otherwise.

This menu item…

Does this…

 

 

Restart

Starts a meaurement or restarts one that was paused. Click this button and all current measurement data (including averaging) is discarded.

 

 

Pause / Single

Pauses a running measurement. A second click then single steps (when Sweep is set to Single) or continues the measurement (when Sweep is set to Continuous).

 

 

Stop

Stops a measurement. Clears all measurement results, unlike Pause.

 

 

Disconnect

Stop all communication between the VSA and measurement hardware for all measurements.

(Source control is only affected by the Enable check box in the Control Tab (Source) dialog box).

   

Record

Perform a recording

 

 

Sweep

Switch between Continuous and Single sweep modes