But putting the diodes in series should increase the noise. They are noncorrelated, so I would say increase the noise in a RMS fashion.
HP has made at least one radio with switched varactors in the prefilter. They made a SIGINT rack for I presume three letter agencies, though it was in the catalog in the 80s IIRC. The radio was offered to me from a destruct house that wasn't clear on the definition of destruction. It was even GPIB. -----Original Message----- From: "John Miles" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:37:29 To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] noisy varactor diodes > The HP sceme in the patent refers to an array of series and parallel > diodes to reduce noise. > > Just paralleling them does not reduce the noise! Still, the patent claims seem pretty obvious. Paralleling n diodes would reduce their noise contribution by the usual 3 dB * log2(n) factor, but would also multiply their max/min capacitance ratings by n... which in turn can be restored to the original value by putting n blocks in series. Yes, I can totally see where HP is entitled to a government-enforced monopoly on this valuable intellectual property. We wouldn't want to discourage "innovation," would we? :-P In practice, low-noise synthesizers made with bulk LC components often use banks of parallel varactors, but they maintain the necessary tuning range by switching between multiple inductors. I'm sure that particular stroke of genius was patented by someone as well... > The 4 paralleled in the 5065 are to give enough phase deviation for the > low modulation level applied. (150mv) > > The symptom was a fluctuating 2nd harmonic meter reading and > coresponding > fluctuations at the A7 TP2 test point. I see. That symptom isn't one that I've been observing. > John I could not see the info you refered to? Here's a direct link to the attachment: http://www.ke5fx.com/5065a.png -- john Miles Design LLC _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
