On HP 8753A, I'm having trouble using front panel interaction to modify an existing cal kit standards to yield a user cal kit (planning 7MM modified to clone 85033D). Looking for help, hand-holding, pointer to suitable how-to, or other resource. I'm not equipped to use GPIB/HPIB, VNA Cal Kit Manager, or GPIB/HPIB floppy drive such as 9122C, so I'm endeavoring to work out the front panel menu system to achieve this.
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I've now got my 8753A set so that the onboard persistent storage (0.22 Farad supercap, about 4 days' life) is kept going with three AA cells (tethered to the supercap via a blocking diode and 10K series resistor); after a week it's stable at 4.4V (fail threshold is around 2V), I'm expecting months of life at least, so I'd now like to perform the task for which I set up this standby power modification.
The 8753A (and successors, evidently with minor variations) has menu directives to modify an existing cal kit (or create from scratch) yielding a (single) user cal kit which can be named and saved.
I'm not set up to connect via HPIB/GPIB and don't have a working 9122C external floppy drive. As I expect my battery/supercap standby supply to provide very long service life, I don't expect to have to re-do the front panel procedure often, so my goal is just to capture the correct key sequence, do and verify the sequence, and go from there.
For the user kit, I'd like use 85033D parameters. I've read through the section of the 8753A user manual 08753-90015 on modifying/creating a user cal kit (later part of section 5), as well as HP's 8510-5B (5956-4352). I'm at the stage "that sort of makes sense" but it's clear that the user cal kit mechanism has to accommodate a large range of use cases, so it's flexible and general purpose, perhaps making the procedure somewhat opaque.
My initial attempts (at modifying the 7mm cal kit as a starting point, as unlike the 85033C and 85032/36 the male/female open and short cal standards have apparently same characteristic parameters) have not been at all successful, so I'm looking for assistance/guidance.
Thanks for any comments, requests for clarification, or pointers to better venue for fielding this question!
