Which document is this? DD Form 1697, official title DD Form 1697, Circuit Parameter Test Data - Analog, February 1989. What does it do? It exists to Circuit Parameter Test Data - Analog. Everything on this page builds on those two facts.
Does it apply to your branch? Yes. The DD prefix means Department of Defense, not one service, so the same blank serves the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and the Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction. There is no Army version and no Navy version to search for.
Where does the requirement come from? From not stated, with not stated responsible for the document itself. Those are the names to cite if anyone asks under what authority you filed.
Is this the right edition? The current one is dated not stated, and the publisher carries it as not stated. Check that against whatever copy you already have before going further.
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.
Download the form
Which files are here? These: PDF. How much work is involved? 2 pages, about 200 entry fields.
Why do two kinds of pdf exist? Because two kinds of user exist. One completes the form on screen and forwards a file; the other prints a blank and fills it by hand. The fillable release has interactive boxes, the printable release is a static image of the same page.
Should you type or write? Type, whenever the choice is yours. The reason is what happens after submission: the record gets copied and scanned, and every pass costs handwriting legibility that typed entries never lose.
In what order do you complete it? The printed order, top to bottom. Header data comes before the body, and the body before the signature block. The sequence is not decorative — later entries are keyed to earlier ones.
Why does the edition matter so much here? Because DD forms are revised centrally. When the Department reissues one, it reissues it for all branches simultaneously, and the field layout can shift. Compare the printed date against not stated before you type anything.
Is the form its own instruction manual? Partly. The rest sits in not stated, which is also the authority where the two texts conflict.
What happens after you finish? It routes to the office specified in not stated or in local guidance. And your own record? Save a duplicate first; nobody regrets having one.
How do you find a form referenced inside this one? By its number alone. The DD sequence runs across the entire Department, so a number identifies exactly one document regardless of which service cited it.
Can you assume a matching number is the same form? No, and this is where downloads go wrong. Read the prefix. Army numbering and Department numbering are independent systems, so the digits alone tell you nothing about which document you need.
How often does a form like this change? Unpredictably — revision follows directive changes, altered collection requirements and updated notice language. What is the practical defence? Verifying not stated every time you download rather than trusting a saved copy.
Will your completed form be accepted? That is not a question this page can answer. What you have here is a published Department of Defense document, a description of it and instructions for filling it out. Nothing on the page is legal advice, and nothing here determines what any office does with a submission. Where do the remaining questions go? To not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named 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?