Does Hunter find overloaded amplifiers and other non-CPD related impairments?
Yes. We have seen this many times in different ways. In one system, we saw a large number of house amps that had problems. They were easily overloaded and became network affecting. We located them and proved that they were a problem. In another system we found that all of a particular brand of nodes were set up incorrectly and were generating beats on the system. In yet another system we found that a particular brand of multitap had ferrites that were saturated, and that they generated significant beats from time to time. In many systems, incorrectly aligned and overloaded amplifiers have been found. Without our equipment these problems would have been very difficult to find. An overloaded amplifier is a nonlinear distortion because new additional carriers are generated. It is similar to CPD in that CPD is also a nonlinear distortion. That is why our system finds these types of impairments.
