[time-nuts] Designing and building an OCXO and GPSDO

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Fri Aug 15 17:07:58 EDT 2008


Luis Cupido wrote:
> Bruce,
> John,
> ...
>
> And at smaller offsets like 100Hz and less ?
> Shouldn't the improvement be even bigger ?
> Closer to the carrier we are dealing with bigger signals
> so the ADC issues like resolution should be less important,
> and the limiting factor should really be the the
> phase noise of the LO's and etc.
> Am I right ?
>
>
> Luis Cupido.
> ct1dmk.
>
>
>
>   
Luis

The R&S FMU 36 is a baseband analyser employing a pair of 80MSPS ADCs so 
only the preamp, ADC, and 80MHz oscillator phase noise should be 
significant (assuming the calculation roundoff noise isnt  a factor).

Bruce



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