Abstract:Aim at the miniaturization and low-cost requirement of test equipment using in the line test for secondary radar transmitter, a test method is provided, which based on a digitizer hardware and adopted the software-defined radio technology and band-pass under-sample theory. Then, according to the method, a prototype system of transmitter tester based on PXI platform of the virtual instrument frame is designed. And the tester is used to power, frequency and envelope measurement for certain pulse modulation signal. Finally, the effectiveness of the method and design is validated by the analysis of prototype system test data under laboratory environment.