To: | Bill Fuqua <wlfuqu00@uky.edu> |
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Subject: | Re: [Amps] article in Nature, modified Aurora via HF |
From: | Gary Schafer <garyschafer@comcast.net> |
Reply-to: | garyschafer@comcast.net |
Date: | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:59:24 -0400 |
List-post: | <mailto:amps@contesting.com> |
But the issue is one of gain "expansion" not of compression. Does expansion produce the same kind of distortion that compression does? 73 Gary K4FMX Bill Fuqua wrote: > I think the real issue is being missed there. The real test of > non-linearity is the production of harmonic and intermodulation distortion. > This means allows measurements of nonlinearity as small as a very small > fraction of a percent. Even to a part per million with very specialized > equipment. > If there were nonlinear propagation the RF spectra would be > unusable. The apparent increase in signal strength could be in > perception. Which has to do with your reference. On receive, a signal to > noise ratio of 0 db would be unintelligible but a 3 or 6 db increase in > signal would provide lots of improvement. And are you measuring signal or > signal+noise? It comes down to this. If no harmonics are produced and no > intermodulation products produced between the transmitting and receiving > sites the propagation path is linear. > Now, if you should be unfortunate enough to have a thermonuclear > blast between the transmitter and receiver you would have lots of > nonlinearity. This is due to the greatly ionized region (large volume of > plasma) due to the blast. This scrambles signals and presents all sorts of > problems for those trying to use RF communications. > If you want to do such an experiment arrange for two stations near by > to transmit a KW signal and then look for the intermodulation products at > the far end of the path. From that you can calculate the degree of > nonlinearity. Don't use stations are close enough that there may be mutual > coupling between their antennas and sending a 2 tone test will not work > either because the degree of nonlinearity that you are looking for will be > very very small. But don't forget. There is also nonlinearity in your > receiver as well. But all of those sources of nonlinearity are small > compared to the nonlinearity that would produce several db increase in > receive signal strength over the change transmitter output power. > > 73 > Bill wa4lav > > > _______________________________________________ > Amps mailing list > Amps@contesting.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps > > _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps |
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