Paul Swed writes: > I agree this does not make sense. There is a divider in the way so its not a > preamp.
I'll bite: what does a small-signal model of a prescaler look like? As a guess, it might be a (flat? highpass?) attenuator (with a great deal of loss) up to some threshold amplitude, then above that one would get the divided output. But that's with a pure-tone stimulus. Perhaps a prescaler could be made to act as a kind of preamp-plus-mixer by pumping it with an LO just at threshold, then adding in the input signal. Likely enough, though, there are better ways to accomplish whatever the system-level goal is. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ 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.
