[hpsdr] Mercury Spurious Emissions

[Jeremy McDermond]

I've been "doing the rounds" of some of the local hamfests with my OpenHPSDR rig over the past couple of weeks and have run into a problem today.  It seems as if Mercury is radiating spurious signals into the antenna connector.  The symptom is showing up on 144.390 MHz.  I have tried removing all boards from Atlas besides Mercury and pulling JP7 on the board to turn off the 10MHz clock.  The signal is full-scale on an FM rig located near the receiver.  When the antenna is removed from the BNC connector, the signal is much weaker, but a handheld near the box will still pick up the signal.  Since it's happening with the 10MHz clock powered off, I'm assuming it has to be some issue with one of the clocks derived from the 122.88MHz clock.  Not really sure where to start or whether folks have ideas on what could be the issue here.

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Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z)
Xenotropic Systems
mcdermj at xenotropic.com