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Re: [TenTec] Orion AM RX Performance Measurements

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion AM RX Performance Measurements
From: Eric Scace K3NA <eric@k3na.org>
Reply-to: eric@k3na.org,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:22:17 -0500
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    I wonder what THD looks like for a carrier in CW/SSB 
detection and a bandwidth customary for those two modes.

    I've been running with no hang time and very fast 
dB/s... but maybe I'm tolerating more distortion that I should?

-- Eric K3NA

on 06 Mar 18 Sat 11:37 Sinisa Hristov said the following:
> A fixed width font is recommended to view the data correctly.
> 
> 
> 
> Part One - Total Harmonic Distortion
> ====================================
> 
> 
> Main RX, 3750 kHz, AM
> PREAMP OFF, ATTN OFF, RF GAIN 100
> ROOF 20 kHz, BW 6000 Hz, PBT 0 Hz
> modulation freq = 300 Hz, modulation depth = 50 %
> carrier level = -53 dBm (S9 + 20 dB)
> measured at speaker output with external 4 Ohm speaker connected
> 
> 
>           Total Harmonic Distortion
>                  in Percent
> 
> HANG  dB/s    1.373b5   2.056
> -----------------------------
> 0.3      5      0.41     0.44
> 0        5      1.27     0.65
> 0       50      4.8      3.1
> 0      100      8.0      5.8
> 0      200     13.4     10.5
> 0      500     24.5     21.4
> 0     1000     35       35
> 
> Orion can deliver up to 1.4 W into 4 Ohm load with
> less than 0.5 % THD, using HANG of 0.3 seconds and 5 dB/s.
> 
> This is a static mesurement in laboratory conditions.
> On the air performance seems to be affected a lot by selective fading.

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