Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-02 Thread George Works
I have this problem in my station. I run three simultaneous stations for RMS Pactor, RMS Winmor and ALE. I don't have a enough land to put three antennas more than a wavelength apart, at least not at 80m. So I put one active receiving antenna as far away as possible and use a power divider to the

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Drax Felton
Thanks! Now I understand. -Original Message- From: Ray - K9DUR [mailto:k9...@rnacs.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:10 PM To: 'Drax Felton'; 'Greg Zenger [N2GZ]' Cc: 'flexradio@flex-radio.biz' Subject: RE: [Flexradio] CE compliance on prea

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Ray - K9DUR
Drax, It is not incoming conducted emissions that they are worried about, but the local oscillator being radiated out of the receiver. Any heterodyne receiver has a local oscillator located relatively close in the processing chain to the antenna. If the receiver is not properly designed, then th

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Jordan
Should have read tune for the LO's to be less dated! - Original Message - From: "Jordan" To: "Drax Felton" ; "'Greg Zenger [N2GZ]'" Cc: "'flexradio@flex-radio.biz'" Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:33 PM

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Jordan
ar outposts etcThis goes back a LONG ways.73...Jordan VE6ZT - Original Message - From: "Drax Felton" To: "'Greg Zenger [N2GZ]'" Cc: "'flexradio@flex-radio.biz'" Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [F

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Drax Felton
- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Greg Zenger [N2GZ] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:03 PM To: 'flexradio@flex-radio.biz' Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp? Ah, That makes good sense now. Thanks for the clarifi

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Greg Zenger [N2GZ]
Greg Zenger [N2GZ] Cc: Drax Felton; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp? Greg, Let me clarify. CE requirements state that conducted emissions to the antenna from the receiver must be less than -57 dBm. To meet that requirement in the FLEX-5000 with d

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-09-01 Thread Gerald Youngblood
Greg, Let me clarify. CE requirements state that conducted emissions to the antenna from the receiver must be less than -57 dBm. To meet that requirement in the FLEX-5000 with direct conversion, we need the preamp above 28 MHz to provide the necessary local oscillator isolation. With the pream

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-08-31 Thread Drax Felton
Youngblood'; 'Drax Felton' Cc: 'flexradio@flex-radio.biz' Subject: RE: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp? Ill have to admit, my curiosity was peaked when I saw this question, and Gerald, your answer doesn't answer the second question asked. What legal requirement is th

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Zenger [N2GZ]
Ill have to admit, my curiosity was peaked when I saw this question, and Gerald, your answer doesn't answer the second question asked. What legal requirement is there [in Europe] to have a receiver above 28MHz to be above a certain sensitivity level? Why is a preamp, either internal or external

Re: [Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-08-31 Thread Gerald Youngblood
There is no downside of having the preamp on 6m. Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: ger...@flex-radio.com Web: www.flex-radio.com Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a tra

[Flexradio] CE compliance on preamp?

2010-08-30 Thread Drax Felton
"Warning External Preamp is required above 28Mhz to maintain CE compliance." Since I'm not required to maintain CE compliance in the USA what is the downside to using the preamp on six meters? What is the "CE" trying to protect? KB3X ___ Fl