Calibrating my Monitor question

Hello everyone
I am trying to calibrate my JVC monitor
i am following the instructions to a link mentioned in one of the threads
i generated a color bar in finalcut and brought it to the timeline
i see it on my monitor, i turned the chroma all the way down and the contrast to the middle
I Canot see these three lines on my monitor-
Three Picture Lineup Generating Equipment bars on the bottom right called PLuGE bars.
any suggestions
Danny

Great article. I copied the section relevant to my situation below:
Accurate Video Monitoring
To ensure accurate video monitoring, your video monitor should be correctly calibrated to your system. The key thing to remember is that the “Brightness” control on your monitor should more correctly be labeled “Black Level”. The setting of the black level control on your monitor will determine which analogue voltage you the viewer will perceive as black when you view the image on the monitor. By adjusting this control correctly you can calibrate your monitor to show you a true image whether your DV deck, for instance, adds 7.5 IRE setup correctly or not to it’s analogue outputs.
Problems can occur when you monitor multiple video sources through the same monitor, for instance an analogue deck and a digital deck. In this situation, if the digital deck does not correctly add 7.5 IRE setup, you would need two different monitor calibrations, which is tricky to achieve. The solution is to add a “proc amp”, an analogue video manipulation device that can raise the analogue output from the digital deck by 7.5 IRE, making up for the lack of such circuitry inside the deck itself.
I have a JVC deck that DOES correctly add 7.5 IRE Setup if needed, but this ONLY matters if I'm dubbing to an analogue format, correct? If I'm just monitoring through a broadcast monitor to color correct in Final Cut Pro, I should:
-use the 7.5 IRE Setup switch on the JVC deck
-calibrate the monitor to 7.5 IRE being the darkest black
My question still is, what is the 7.5 IRE Setup switch on the monitor for? Should both switches be on, or does that add 7.5 IRE twice? My gut is that the monitor 7.5 IRE switch also adds 7.5 IRE and thus should be off, provided the JVC deck 7.5 IRE switch is on.
Is anyone following me?
Thanks.

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