From: Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 Time: 07:10:29
>At 07:03 AM 8/25/2006, Jim Lux wrote: > >>Then, the I/Q audio signals run through separate channels, so there's a >>"audio frequency" dependent variation between I and Q. This is fairly >>fixed, independent of > >DDS frequency (not audio frequency.. it varies a lot with audio frequency) > >>, but is also not particularly well >>represented by a single phase/amplitude calibration value (as currently >>used in PowerSDR), especially when used with wideband audio interfaces >>(e.g. 96 kHz sampling, etc.). The audio interface manufacturers do a >>fairly good job keeping phase and amplitude matched beween channels in the >>middle ranges (say, 100 to 10 kHz), but not so wonderful farther out: their >>primary criteria is making sure it "sounds right" and phase/amplitude >>problems in the lower end of the range would result in "stereo imaging" >>artifacts {Phase difference between L and R being one of the big cues for >>how you tell what direction a sound is coming from}. > > Jim, Many thanks for all your comments. I found them most helpful and encouraging. 73 Ian, G3NRW -- Ian Wade _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com