Hello,
Yes, I know that the phase noise is the spectrum analyzer one, but the
spurious that are around (mostly -70, -80dBc) are not, particularly the
ones at +/200kHz and +/-400kHz. I was mostly curious about the harmonics
and other spurii since in this unit, 10MHz are generated from a CPLD
divider, and this approach sometimes leds to strange spurious and nasty
things around, but in this case seems not bad. As far as I remember, in
a FRS-C the output is from a 10MHz crystal oscillator.
And the harmonics, well... usually we square that output and they have
not importance, but sometimes it is desirable to have a clean as
possible signal, and I was curious to see how good (or bad) the
filtering was :). On other side, we can use square wave from the CPLD
(not yet checked, but it must be there inside, somewhere :) ). The 2nd
harmonic is very low, that indicates that square wave symmetry is very good.
Regards,
Javier, EA1CRB
El 09/12/2011 14:10, Marco IK1ODO -2 escribió:
Javier,
the plots are nice, and I did the same years ago for an Efratom FRS-C.
Found about the same data. The only point is that with the spectrum
analyzer you see the S/A pahse noise, not the Rb, wich has to be
orders of magnitude lower.
About the comments on the waveform and harmonics contents: who cares
about having the 2nd harmonic at -30 or -50 dB? For any practical use
one has to square the signal, and the original harmonic content is of
no pratical interest, or I am missing something ...
73 - Marco IK1ODO / AI4YF
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