About Trace Data (MB-OFDM)

Menu Path: Trace > Data

The MB-OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing: OFDM employs multiple overlapping radio frequency carriers, each operating at a carefully chosen frequency that is Orthogonal to the others, to produce a transmission scheme that supports higher bit rates due to parallel channel operation. OFDM is an alternative tranmission scheme to DSSS and FHSS. trace data results are grouped into three sub-menu categories. These sub-menu categories are identified by the following measurement types:

Channel 1 trace data for non-demodulated signals.
Comp trace data for composite signals.
Low | Mid | High Band trace data specific to frequency hopping signals (traces are blank if signal is not hopping).

For specific information on a particular trace, see Available Trace Data.

The full trace data name shown on the VSA includes the input channel identifier "Channel x", where x is the channel number, that identifies the measurement input channel. This documentation uses an abbreviated naming convention that does not include the channel identifier.