• User power calibrations can be used to improve the accuracy of receiver calibrations as in the other applications on the instrument.

• The factory receiver calibration is referenced to the test port. User receiver calibrations can, as usual, be used to shift the absolute power reference to a different plane. Factory receiver calibrations only exist for the base two-port VNA and not for mm-wave configurations or four-port systems.

• Reference plane extensions can be applied (particularly the loss functions are useful).

• Any graph type and any response parameter can be used. The traditional S-parameters and complex graph types are most useful when a tracking measurement is being performed but they can also be helpful for multiple receiver ratios derived from a common external source (e.g., multiple antenna testing).

• Spur reduction cannot avoid all spurs, particularly when using the internal sources.

• The VNA-like point-based sweep mode can be very fast (with very good noise floor) for harmonic, IMD and other measurements where the tones of interest have known locations. Using segmented sweep can make this even faster by skipping more frequencies that are not of interest.