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[RFI] Re: Final Re about smell tests

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Subject: [RFI] Re: Final Re about smell tests
From: Tim Groat <tcgroat@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:55:42 -0600
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Eddie,

I'm curious if you measured the "noise pulses" with a quasi-peak receiver or spectrum analyzer. That is what the FCC specifies for Part 15 devices at HF. The QP detector has a fast-attack, slow-decay response (1ms and 1 sec time constants, respectively, if I recall correctly). It's intended to represent the perceived severity of low duty cycle interference sources.

I have seen more than 30dB difference between the QP detector and average signal levels. That often happens when a rectifier produces short, high-amplitude transients at every AC line half-cycle.

73,
--Tim (KR0U)

At 12:00 PM 10/25/04 -0400, you wrote:
>There were noise pulses there that were about 40-60db above the noise
>floor, but they were very thin across the band so they didn't cause
>much interference.

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