MIL-STD-188-141B Conformance Test Procedures

1 DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY JOINT INTEROPERABILITY TEST COMMAND FORT HUACHUCA, ARIZONA MIL-STD-188- 141b Conformance TEST Procedures NOVEMBER 2003 (This page intentionally left blank.) i TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 APPENDICES REQUIREMENTS TEST C-1 SUBTEST 1, BASELINE C-3 SUBTEST 2, ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DIGITAL C-9 SUBTEST 3, MODULATION AND SIGNALING C-15 SUBTEST 4, FREQUENCY DISPLAY, COVERAGE, AND C-19 SUBTEST 5, PHASE C-31 SUBTEST 6, PHASE C-35 SUBTEST 7, BANDWIDTH, OVERALL CHANNEL RESPONSE, AND ABSOLUTE C-41 SUBTEST 8, IN-BAND C-51 SUBTEST 9, INTERMODULATION DISTORTION (IMD).

2 C-55 SUBTEST 10, BROADBAND EMISSIONS AND DISCRETE FREQUENCY SPURIOUS C-59 SUBTEST 11, CARRIER C-67 SUBTEST 12, automatic LEVEL CONTROL (ALC).. C-69 SUBTEST 13, ATTACK AND RELEASE TIME C-73 SUBTEST 14, SIGNAL INPUT INTERFACE C-77 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Page SUBTEST 15, TRANSMITTER OUTPUT LOAD C-83 SUBTEST 16, RECEIVER RF C-87 SUBTEST 17, RECEIVER C-93 SUBTEST 18, DESENSITIZATION DYNAMIC C-97 SUBTEST 19, RECEIVER SUBTEST 20, RECEIVER OUT-OF-BAND SUBTEST 21, THIRD ORDER INTERCEPT SUBTEST 22, RECEIVER DISTORTION AND INTERNALLY GENERATED SPURIOUS SUBTEST 23, automatic GAIN CONTROL SUBTEST 24, RECEIVER SUBTEST 25, INPUT SUBTEST 26, OUTPUT IMPEDANCE AND SUBTEST 27, SUBTEST 28, SUBTEST 29, SUBTEST 30, link SUBTEST 31, LQA SUBTEST 32, SIGNAL STRUCTURE AND SUBTEST 33, WORD FRAMING AND SUBTEST 34, C-223 SUBTEST 35, iii TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)

3 Page SUBTEST 36, SUBTEST 37, MULTIPLE STATION SUBTEST 38, automatic MESSAGE SUBTEST 39, DATA TEXT MESSAGE (DTM)..C-291 SUBTEST 40, DATA BLOCK MESSAGE (DBM)..C-319 SUBTEST 41, CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK (CRC)..C-347 SUBTEST 42, TUNE AND WAIT, AND TIME-RELATED SUBTEST 43, USER UNIQUE SUBTEST 44, POWER, FREQUENCY, MODEM CONTROL, AND SUBTEST 45, OCCUPANCY DETECTION AND LISTEN BEFORE SUBTEST 46, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)- automatic link establishment (ALE) LINKING PROBABILITY SUBTEST 47, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)- automatic link establishment (ALE) UNIT CALL STRUCTURE SUBTEST 48, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)- automatic link establishment (ALE) INLINK TRANSACTION SUBTEST 49, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)- automatic link establishment (ALE) SUBTEST 50, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)- automatic link establishment (ALE) ORDERWIRE FUNCTIONS (OPTIONAL) SUBTEST 51, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)

4 - automatic link establishment (ALE) CALLING CYCLE iv TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) Page SUBTEST 52, ALTERNATIVE QUICK CALL (AQC)- automatic link establishment (ALE) DATA EXCHANGE FIELD SUBTEST 53, LINKING PROTECTION (LP)..C-473 DATA COLLECTION D-1 LIST OF FIGURES Baseline Mode Test Equipment C-4 Measurement Diagram for Unbalanced Circuit .. C-11 Measurement Diagram for Balanced C-12 Electrical Characteristics of Digital Interfaces Test Equipment Configuration .. C-13 Radio Subsystems Interface Points .. C-15 Modulation and Signaling Rates Test Equipment Configuration (Using External Modem).. C-16 Modulation and Signaling Rates Test Equipment Configuration (Using Internal Modem).. C-17 Transmitter and Receiver Frequency Display and Frequency Coverage.

5 C-20 Transmitter Frequency Accuracy .. C-20 Phase Stability C-32 Phase Noise Limit Mask for Fixed Site and Transportable Long Haul Radio C-36 Phase Noise Limit Mask for Tactical Radio Transmitters .. C-37 Phase Noise Test Equipment Configuration .. C-38 Overall Channel Response for Single Channel or Dual Channel Equipment ..C-42 Overall Channel Characteristics (Four Channel Equipment) .. C-43 Bandwidth and Overall Response Configuration .. C-45 Absolute Delay Equipment Configuration .. C-45 In-Band Noise TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) LIST OF FIGURES (continued) Page Intermodulation Distortion C-55 Out-of-Band Power Spectral Density for High Frequency Transmitters.

6 C-60 Discrete Spurious Emissions Limit for High Frequency C-61 Broadband Emissions and Discrete Frequency Spurious Emissions C-62 Carrier Suppression C-67 automatic Level Control Configuration ..C-69 Attack and Release Time Delay Equipment Configuration .. C-73 Signal Input Interface Characteristics Equipment Configuration .. C-78 Equipment Configuration for Measuring Audio Frequency Return Loss . C-78 Equipment Configuration for Longitudinal Current Suppression .. C-79 Configuration to Determine Frequency of VSWR Across Dummy Load Configuration .. C-84 Configuration to Determine Power Output Impedance Configuration .. C-84 Equipment Configuration Receiver RF Characteristics.

7 C-88 Equipment Configuration for Receiver Protection .. C-93 Equipment Configuration for Desensitization Dynamic C-98 Equipment Configuration for Receiver .. C-101 Equipment Configuration for Receiver Out-of-Band IMD .. C-106 Test Configuration to Measure the Receiver Noise Floor ..C-109 Test Configuration to Measure IMD Dynamic C-110 Equipment Configuration for Overall C-114 Equipment Configuration for Adjacent Channel IMD .. C-114 Equipment Configuration for Total Harmonic Distortion .. C-115 Equipment Configuration for Spurious C-115 Equipment Configuration for automatic Gain Control Steady- State .. C-126 Equipment Configuration for automatic Gain Control Attack and Release Time.

8 C-126 Equipment Configuration for Receiver C-131 Equipment Configuration for Input C-133 Equipment Configuration for Output Impedance, Power, and C-136 Equipment Configuration for Longitudinal Current Suppression .. C-136 Equipment Configuration for Memory Subtest .. C-150 Equipment Configuration for Scan C-158 Equipment Configuration for Scan Rate vi TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) LIST OF FIGURES (continued) Page Equipment Configuration for Tone C-166 Equipment Configuration for Waveform Subtest .. C-166 Equipment Configuration for link establishment .

9 C-175 Equipment Configuration for LQA Operation .. C-184 Equipment Configuration for Signal Structure and C-198 Equipment Configuration to Measure RF Output Power .. C-213 Equipment Configuration for Word Framing and Synchronization .. C-214 Equipment Configuration for Addressing ..C-226 Equipment Configuration for Protocol Subtest .. C-246 Equipment Configuration for Sounding Subtest .. C-261 Equipment Configuration for Multiple Station Operation Subtest .. C-271 Equipment Configuration for automatic Message Display Subtest .. C-285 Equipment Configuration for Data Text Message Subtest .. C-298 Equipment Configuration for Data Block Message Subtest .. C-326 Equipment Configuration for Cyclic Redundancy Check Subtest.

10 C-349 Equipment Configuration for CRC ACK/NAK Test ..C-349 Equipment Configuration for Tune and Wait, and Time-Related Functions .. C-358 Equipment Configuration User Unique Functions Subtest .. C-368 Equipment Configuration for Power, Frequency, Modem Control, and Capabilities ..C-376 Occupancy Detection Configuration .. C-392 Linking Probability C-399 Example of Unit Call Format .. C-409 Example of Star Net Format .. C-410 Example AllCall Frame Format .. C-411 Example AnyCall Frame Format .. C-411 Example of Sounding Frame Format ..C-412 Unit Call Structure Configuration ..C-413 Example of link Transaction Triple Redundant Word Sequences.