Phase Noise and Frequency Stability in Oscillators: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521886775/
The UPS driver handed it to me 30 seconds ago, and I can already give it a favorable review after opening it to a random page. Exercise 6.2 on page 191: "Hack as many microwave oscillators as you can." This book -- which I can immediately tell isn't long, dry, or unreasonably-expensive -- seems like an effective marriage of math and pragmatics, likely because it's based on the author's JPL tutorials and industry lectures. Looking through it, I'm seeing a lot of PN graphs which are annotated with explanations of corner frequencies, slopes, and comparisons with other sources, which are (IMHO) a great way to understand what to expect from your own measurements. Anyway: the book looks very approachable, relevant, and well-grounded in hardware and processes often discussed on the list. I'm looking forward to spending some more time with it. -- john, KE5FX _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
