Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Amos
Floor S meter vs Panadapter I recently build the Elecraft kit to provide a reference signal for calibration of my SDR1000. With the 50 uV reference my S meter shows -73 dBm (S 9.0). At 1 uV reference, the meter shows -107 dBm ( S 3.3). These two numbers show the S meter is perfectly calibrated

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Amos
-calibrate the receiver.) Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Amos Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:29 PM To: 'Doug McCormack'; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter Doug, I had the same problem

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-15 Thread Doug McCormack
- Original Message - From: Eric Wachsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Tim Ellison' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Doug McCormack' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter This is close

[Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Doug McCormack
I recently build the Elecraft kit to provide a reference signal for calibration of my SDR1000. With the 50 uV reference my S meter shows -73 dBm (S 9.0). At 1 uV reference, the meter shows -107 dBm ( S 3.3). These two numbers show the S meter is perfectly calibrated. When I remove the Elecraft

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Tim Ellison
@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter I recently build the Elecraft kit to provide a reference signal for calibration of my SDR1000. With the 50 uV reference my S meter shows -73 dBm (S 9.0). At 1 uV reference, the meter shows -107 dBm ( S 3.3). These two numbers

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Philip J Gentile
i would terminate the antenna connection into a 50 ohm load to measure noise. phil AB2JL - Original Message - From: Doug McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter I recently

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Tayloe Dan-P26412
in a 3.3 KHz bandwidth. - Dan, N7VE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug McCormack Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:30 AM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter I recently build the Elecraft kit

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Anderson
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philip J Gentile Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:54 AM To: Doug McCormack; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter i would terminate the antenna connection into a 50 ohm load to measure noise. phil AB2JL - Original

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Wachsmann
PROTECTED] radio.biz] On Behalf Of Tim Ellison Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:47 AM To: Doug McCormack; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter Do you have averaging turned on with the Panadapter? The S meter will display the highest value it sees

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Lux
At 08:54 AM 6/14/2007, Philip J Gentile wrote: i would terminate the antenna connection into a 50 ohm load to measure noise. phil AB2JL When making noise power measurements one has to be aware of the fact that the instantaneous power can vary quite widely. The noise is a normally distributed

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Jim McLester
Ellison' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Doug McCormack' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; flexradio@flex-radio.biz Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter This is close, but technically, a bit different. The multimeter actually calculates the power within

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Lux
At 09:00 AM 6/14/2007, Tayloe Dan-P26412 wrote: What you see on the display and what is on the meter are two different things. If you are sampling at 48 KHz, what you see on the panadapter is the noise per 11 Hz bin. What you see on your meter is the noise from all the 11 Hz bins within the

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Robert McGwier
Doug: Please ignore all of the erroneous information you have been given. Everyone is supposed to have read the thousands and thousands of emails and to have learned everything that was ever said here. You did this right? ;-) Sorry, I just couldn't resist. Let me explain. This is

Re: [Flexradio] Noise Floor S meter vs Panadapter

2007-06-14 Thread Greg - ZL3IX
Hi Bob, Forgive me if this is in the manual - What are the attack and decay time constants on the S meter? Are they adjustable? - I haven't found anywhere to adjust them. 73, Greg, ZL3IX Robert McGwier wrote: Doug: Please ignore all of the erroneous information you have been given.