Measurement acquisition and display apparatus

A measurement acquisition and display system suitable for receiving a digitally modulated radio frequency signal and generating digital data values representative of a digitally modulated intermediate frequency signal down converted from the digitally modulated radio frequency signal comprising:

• a processor which processes the digital data values for generating an average power level value representative of the radio frequency signal and a first statistical array containing a first set of values representative of peak power levels of the radio frequency signal deviating from the average power level and a second set of values representative of percents of time the peak power levels deviate from the average power level with each peak-to-average power ratio value having an associated percent of time value;
• a memory containing a second statistical array representative of a corresponding ideal digitally modulated radio frequency containing a first set of values representative of ideal peak-to-average power ratio values and a second set of values representative of ideal percents of time associated with the ideal peak-to-average power ratio values;
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• a display device which graphically displays the peak-to-average power ratio values and associated percent of time values of first and second statistical arrays representing the digitally modulated radio frequency signal and the corresponding ideal digitally modulated radio frequency signal.