[hpsdr] Mercury SSB Phase Noise Testing

Phil Harman phil at pharman.org
Mon Oct 26 19:04:36 PDT 2009


Hi Marco,

Looking at your figures I would suspect that Mercury was using the Kordic
rather than the Cordic Verilog code.

For some reason this seems to have crept into the latest releases of Mercury.

I'll check it out.

73's Phil...VK6APH



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>>I am setting up a HP 10544A Crystal Oscillator at 10 MHz, the specs on
>>it are -115dBc/Hz at 10 Hz offset (max) and -130 dBc/Hz at 10 KHz
>>offset (max). That should work better?
>>
>>Ron, W9KFB
>>Indianapolis
>
> Ron, see my data in http://www.spinelectronics.eu/ftp/HPSDR_PN.pdf -
> you need -150 dBc at 10 kHz.
> The HP 10811A worst case specs are far from the typical data; the
> 10544A should be similar to the 10811A, but I don't have the data on hand.
>
> 73 - Marco IK1ODO
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