The Vision program provides a set of robust signal interferer monitoring menus to monitor, track, identify, capture, and record signal interference. Signal monitoring is also performed by setting masks and limit lines set at selected power levels to check and capture potential interferer power level violations, Some of the menus below are used interactively when monitoring and analyzing.

The DB (Database) Creator provides a menu consisting of user-set base stations, channel setup definitions, and mask definitions used for the Trace Monitor menu and Trace Acquire menu.
See DB Creator.

The Trace Acquire menu runs continuously in the background, talking with the spectrum analyzers to acquire, store, and archive failed and passing sweep traces in a database located on the remote PC/server. Vision Acquire collects traces from multiple Spectrum Analyzers located at base station sites. The trace collection is periodically configured by the user. Vision Acquire also maintains the database of traces by
archiving them, removing old ones, and compacting and compressing the database. Vision Acquire can be setup to receive email trace-monitoring status notifications and set alarm notifications when a trace fails a set threshold. See Trace Acquire.

The Trace Monitor menu analyzes the database where measurements are collected to show date/time stamped trace information, spectrograms, and intuitive ways to monitor for interference signals. See Trace Monitor/Trace Viewer.

The PoA Locate menu performs geo-location for signals of interest. The monitor coordinate area provides the algorithmic region of the suspect signal include the Power of Arrival. Capture live traces from a remote monitor or scroll through to analyze traces from database data while looking at location estimates. See PoA Locate (Option 401).

The TDoA menu supports three active monitors to perform a Time Difference of Arrival measurement and identify a stationary or moving target’s signal longitude and latitude coordinates. Use a user-selected map to provide a geo-locate approximation of the interferers signal location. Averaging can be set to pinpoint an interferer location. Setup the TDoA program to monitor interferer capture settings to provide correlation results. Mobile tracking can be performed using an spectrum analyzer in a car, drive the area, and observe the results when parked. See TDoA Locate (Option 401).

The Port Scanner menu runs as an independent program for rapid scanning multiplexed RF IN ports. Many sweep channels can be monitored and viewed at once in a real time view. Traces can be viewed in tabular view or trace view format. The tabular data provides a user defined set of parameters defined from an Add Channels dialog. The trace parameters set for viewing are user selected from a Table Display Columns list, such as frequency, limits masks, marker and delta markers, live channel power readouts for each channel, pass rate and more. Toggle the tabular defined channels to a trace view and view all the available channel traces simultaneously with the set defined parameters.
See Port Scanner (Option 407).

The Scan Viewer menu provides tools for viewing saved .cpm (channel power measurement) files and spectrum analyzer measurement files. CPM files created by Port Scanner contain many RF sweep traces that include sweeps at multiple frequency bands and from multiple spectrum analyzers. Use Scan Viewer to review all of the traces in multiple views and explore the data as a set. See Scan Viewer.

The Radio menu contains the AM/FM Measurements for the spectrum analyzer with Option 400 installed. The function “Streaming Audio” is option controlled. It is accessed via the Vision API. Radio uses the Vision API to stream audio from spectrum analyzer. If accessing a Spectrum Analyzer without Option 400, it will not function. The AM/FM option provides analysis information included AM modulation quality and FM deviation metrics. See Radio (Option 400).

The Occupancy menu provides tools to set power threshold levels to determine whether a given frequency channel is to be considered occupied. The analysis provides a basis to determine that noise and very low-level signals can be eliminated from the analysis. See Occupancy.

Cross Polarization monitors two antennas measuring the same signal, one turned 90 degrees relative to the other. Determine the difference in receive power between 2 antennas by tuning the position of an antenna for maximum benefit. Cross polarization measurements can be made with a multiport RSM or by using two RSMs. See Cross Polarization.