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<DIV>Hi Joe,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the reply.</DIV>
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<DIV>No, unfortunately, that would not do it. The cursor reads the static
position of where it is on the screen. </DIV>
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<DIV>I would like the reading to be dynamic and change with the two signal
levels so that the side crud, 3khz away from the main signal, would be shown
in –db. </DIV>
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<DIV>I suppose a second receiver could do this, though we would have to mentally
subtract the two levels to get an IMD figure.</DIV>
<DIV>Some of the high end commercial spec analyzers will let us put a bug on the
screen and it will calculate these difference levels. </DIV>
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<DIV>Hmmm... maybe one Merc receiver cannot monitor a second frequency – is this
the limitation?</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=k5so@valornet.com
href="mailto:k5so@valornet.com">Joe Martin K5SO</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 09, 2012 4:53 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=K1JJ@comcast.net href="mailto:K1JJ@comcast.net">Tom
Cathey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=hpsdr@openhpsdr.org
href="mailto:hpsdr@openhpsdr.org">hpsdr@openhpsdr.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hpsdr] Spectrum Analyzer Software Feature for
Mercury</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>In PowerSDR, when the cursor is in the panadaptor window the position of
the cursor is shown (in dBm) just below the panadaptor display on the left
side. Won't that do what you require? </DIV>
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<DIV>Just put the cursor on the point you want measured. Yes?</DIV>
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<DIV>73, Joe K5SO</DIV>
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<DIV>On Dec 9, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Tom Cathey wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV>Hi All,</DIV>
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<DIV>This may have been covered before, but here’s my idea for a software
addition...</DIV>
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<DIV>I use my Mercury receiver often as a spectrum analyzer to measure my
final linear’s IMD. (3-1000z, 8877, etc) I sometimes like to
compare one amplifier against the other to see the effects on drive, loading
and other parameters. After some testing, we can usually find the sweet spot
and then know where to run the amplifier for cleanest operation.</DIV>
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<DIV>With the present PwrSDR software, it is difficult and time consuming on
the fly to interpret the IMD without counting grid lines, etc. A nice
feature to have would be to be able to set a distance from the main signal and
see an ongoing numerical reading of how far down in db this level is.
For example, if your transmit signal is on 3700 using a two tone – and
we punch in 3703 as the test point, a readout might show the side trash signal
3khz away is –35db. By changing various amplifier parameters, we
could see the best settings as this number changed. Moving out farther,
like 5kc, etc could start to show the rough 5th, 7th order, etc IMD
numbers.</DIV>
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<DIV>I understand that a Cyclops spec analyzer is coming out, but could this
feature be considered for the PWRSDR software so that the Mercury could use it
too?</DIV>
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<DIV>Or is there a way to do this now that I am missing? What do
you think?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom, K1JJ</DIV>
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