Methods for calibrating radio-frequency receivers using code division multiple access test equipment

A method for performing over-the-air testing of user equipment using a code-division-multiple-access radio communications tester, comprising:

• with an antenna and a receiver having an input in the user equipment, receiving a wireless radio-frequency test signal and making a corresponding radio-frequency test signal power measurement to produce a measured power value that is indicative of how much power the received radio-frequency test signal has at the input;
• and
• transmitting the measured power value to the to the code-division-multiple-access radio communications tester in at least one code-division-multiple-access network message.

A method for performing over-the-air testing of user equipment using a radio communications tester, comprising:

• wirelessly receiving a given protocol-compliant cellular network message with the user equipment;
• and
• in response to receiving the given protocol-compliant cellular network message with the user equipment, taking an action in the user equipment that differs from an appropriate protocol-compliant action to receipt of the given protocol-compliant cellular network message during normal operation of the user equipment in communications with a cellular telephone base station in a cellular telephone network.