White Paper Abstract:
Many of today's signal level meters, spectrum analyzers, and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) analyzers support the measurement of both analog TV channels and 64- and 256-QAM digitally modulated carriers. TV channel signal level or amplitude generally refers to the channel's visual carrier amplitude, which is defined as the root mean square (rms) value of the instantaneous synchronizing peak. Digitally modulated carrier amplitude is a measure of the signal's average power.