Mistake: frontend LO frequency stability

["Leif Åsbrink" <SMTP:LEIF.ASBRINK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter and All,

In a previous posting I wrote:

> The low noise local oscillators in the WSE high level converters that I 
> currently work with are stable enough if they are kept at 
> constant temperature.
> An FFT that spans 40 seconds with a bin bandwidth of about 0.05Hz 
> (50% interleaved transforms with a sine squared window) will have 
> a bandwidth
> below 0.1Hz most of the times when averaged over 2 minutes. It may go up
> to 0.15 Hz occasionally but as I have them, lying on a table 
> indoors, there is nothing to gain with a better LO for 144 MHz QRSS 
> except for absolute frequency accuracy.  
The above is NOT correct. My brains slipped, the scale was in Hz and not 
in 0.1Hz per division. I was just careless......

When I discovered this mistake I decided to have a closer look.

The conclusion is that the WSE converters have to locked to a 
frequency reference if bin widths below about 0.5 Hz are used.
Provision is made to allow this, all LO frequencies are multiples
of 100kHz. It is nothing I will give priority, but may be some day....



73


Leif / SM5BSZ

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