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Treat DD Form 1697 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1697, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Analog, February 1989. Function: Circuit Parameter Test Data - Analog. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Current edition is not stated, carried as not stated. Check that against any copy you already hold before doing anything else — Department-level revisions land everywhere simultaneously, so a stale file is stale across the whole Department.
Available: PDF, across 2 pages, roughly 200 fields. That is the whole scope of the download decision.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
Nothing costs anything here. Work in a full desktop pdf application rather than a browser preview; field behaviour in browsers is unreliable.
What the form asks for
- 1. CCSD.
- 2. Type test.
- 3. Parameter code.
- 4. Time start (date time group).
- 5. Time finish (date time group).
- 6. Receive station/initials.
- 7. Transmit station/initials.
- 9. C-MSG noise. Specification: dBrnC0.
- Receive: initial. dBrnC0.
- Receive: adjusted. dBrnC0.
- Transmit: initial. dBrnC0.
- Transmit: adjusted. dBrnC0.
- Receive: initial. dBrnC0.
- Receive: adjusted. dBrnC0.
- Transmit: initial. dBrnC0.
- Transmit: adjusted. dBrnC0.
- 8. Test tone level. Specification. Decibels.
- Receive: initial. Decibels.
- Receive: adjusted. Decibels.
- Transmit: initial. Decibels.
- Transmit: adjusted. Decibels.
- 11. Sig/noise ratio. Specification. Decibels.
- 10. C-notch noise. Specification: dBrnC0.
- 12. Impulse noise. Specification: Reference level: dBrnC0.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
This page publishes a Defense document and explains its contents. It does not advise, does not rule on applicability, and determines nothing about how a completed form will be treated. Direct such questions to not stated, to the servicing personnel office, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1697?
- DD Form 1697, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Analog, February 1989
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?