[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Your insight on noise and nonlinearity caught my attention.  I have written a
> link budget fora University of Colorado satellite to be launched some time next
> year, and I have assumed AGWN and linearity.

Alexander Kurpiers has made simulations about this AFAIR.

>  The setup is for GMSK (G3RUH) modulation @ 9600 bps, and I will be using an
> Icom 821H transceiver.
>  I am wondering if you are familiar with how nonlinearities an non-white noise

There are two typical transceiver circuits in use:

- crystal oscillator modulated with a varactor. There, the nonlinearity
  stems quite directly from the varactor characteristic

- PLL: here, the PLL compensates the low frequency part of the
modulation,
  while a circuit tries to compensate this by modulating the reference
  oscillator. I have no model for this, though it seems that you cannot
  operate with a linearized PLL model here. And the effects seem to be
  strongly dependent on the adjustment of the circuit...

Tom

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