New white paper on optimising RSP1A performance for VLF/LF/MF/HF

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New white paper on optimising RSP1A performance for VLF/LF/MF/HF

Post by jon » Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:10 pm

The RSP1A covers the spectrum from 1kHz to 2GHz, and phantom signals can be a menace for all wideband SDR receivers. More and more is being published about the most obvious culprit which is inter-modulation caused by very strong interferers such as MW/FM broadcast transmitters – indeed, all the current SDRplay RSPs have built in filters to help reduce the problems caused by that.
But the reality is, particularly at HF and below, that a phantom signal may occur for other reasons such as higher order mixing effects. Sometimes, it can be difficult to know what is the cause of the phantom signal. If you can understand the cause, there are additional steps you can take to overcome it.
We’ve just published this white paper to explain the difference between intermodulation and higher-order mixing effects, and what practical steps you can take to reduce the latter in particular. Our example uses an RSP1A operating at frequencies below 60MHz
Here’s a link to the paper: https://www.sdrplay.com/docs/SDRplay_Op ... _MW_HF.pdf

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