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[AMPS] Distortion Measurement Distortion

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Subject: [AMPS] Distortion Measurement Distortion
From: Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek@ifwtech.com (Ian White, G3SEK)
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:35:08 +0100
Peter Chadwick wrote:
>Ian says:
>
>>Set the display to max persistence, crank the resolution and
>>sweep speed right down, zero in on your SSB signal, and talk away. Just
>>watch your IMD grow... 
>
>And the display 'bloom' if you have the intensity up too far! 
>
To get it just right in storage mode, that intensity control really does
need a slow-motion drive!

>But there, modern spectrum analysers put the intelligence behind the front
>panel. 

Artificial intelligence... no substitute for the real thing.


73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek

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