The 4396A provides excellent RF vector network and spectrum measurements for lab and production applications.  Gain, phase, group delay, distortion, spurious, CN, and noise measurements often required for evaluating components and circuits can be measured using one instrument.  When combined with a test set, the 4396A provides reflection measurements, such as return loss, and SWR, and S parameters. 

As a vector network analyzer, the 4396A operates from 100kHz to 1.8GHz with 1mHz resolution and its integrated synthesized source provides -60 to +20dBm of output power with 0.1dB resolution.  The dynamic magnitude and phase accuracy are ±0.05 dB and ±0.3 deg so that it can accurately measure gain and group delay flatness, which are becoming more important in modern electronics systems.

• 00M - RGB Output
• 010 - Impedance Measurement Function (Requires HP 43961A)
• 1C2 - HP IBasic
• 1D5 - High Stability Frequency Reference
• 1D6 - Time Gated Spectrum Analysis
• 1D7 - 50 ohm to 75 ohm Spectrum Input Impedance Conversion