Hi Daniel, haven't made experience with any of these upconverters; but:
The really temperature-sensitive aspect of an upconverter is probably the oscillator, not the mixer. So the trick might really be keeping your upconverter in the same environment as your SDR receiver (assuming both don't have overly well temperature-compensated or oven-controlled oscillators), as that will just as much limit your frequency accuracy. Mixer circuits do exhibit conversion loss that tends to get worse with rising temperature, but that'll not distort your signal much. The core question here is whether you'll deterioriate your system performance if you keep your upverter far from your antenna; my guess is that you'd have an LNA close to the antenna, anyway, so keeping the upverter's oscillator warm and cozy near your SDR device won't be that complicated, probably. That brings one down to the question whether you have the chance to use the same oscillator for both your SDR device and the upconversion; that way, you'd only have to worry about one device drifting under any circumstance. Does your device give you the chance to couple out a clock or maybe transmit a sine? Best regards, Marcus On 30.03.2016 09:18, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Hi all, > > Has anybody been using any of the upconverters for SDR and has anybody > made any comparison of them? > > I've seen some comments suggesting that many of the low cost models have > poor thermal stability[1], has anybody seen problems with this in > practice for receiving modes like SSB on amateur HF bands? > > If this is an issue, is anybody aware of alternative models that are > more robust? > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > 1. http://www.rtl-sdr.com/review-of-the-spyverter-upconverter/#comment-79953 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio