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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Athi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Can you tell me (and the others in the list) how
you are measuring the noise floor?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Is there a program to determine the noise floor of a sound
card?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>73 Johan PAGSB</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Still far away from the target! Obviously some design
changes will be<BR>needed for the Integrating Sampling Detector (ISD). What
about a<BR>modified mixer of SM5BSZ?<BR><BR>Here are some tentative
measurement results with a system having no<BR>amplifier before the ISD, only 20
dB amplifier between the ISD and the<BR>sound card:<BR>1.8 MHz: noise floor -133
dBm (11.7 Hz), 500 Hz noise -119.3 dBm<BR>28.5 MHz: noise floor -125 dBm (11.7
Hz), 500 Hz noise -111.0 dBm<BR><BR>The attached picture shows -10 dBm signal on
spectrum display using<BR>DSB ±6 kHz filter. Maximum signal the ISD now can take
is more than 0<BR>dBm, so more amplification may be used to improve the
sensitivity.<BR>However, we want to have a sampling detector that is not
clipping<BR>strong signals and still has noise floor somewhere -160 dBm/11.7
Hz.<BR><BR>73, Ahti OH2RZ<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>