> While we are on the subject, hopefully the synthesizer board will be
> designed properly- wide ground traces on the board, bypass capacitors,
> ferrite beads and other fixes already discussed here so we can avoid the
> "birdie issue".
Between the lessons learned from the design of both the low-noise Kachina
505DSP and Ten-Tec RX-340 DSP products, I think we're
going to find a new level of low-noise synthesizer in the Orion. If the Orion
can match the RX-340 in this performance
area...consider it a non-issue, even up to 30 MHz.
-Paul, W9AC
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