Receiver Performance Requirements What does it take 接收机性能要求它采取什么.pptVIP

What makes a DX receiver great?Understanding receiver specs John Eisenberg K6YP Agenda Introduction Receiver fundamentals Sensitivity Linearity Dynamic Range and AGC Function Selectivity Stability Conclusion Introduction If you can’t hear him, you can’t work him! Hearing him depends on: Is he on? Is there decent propagation? Do you have enough antenna? How much QRM/QRN is present? The performance of your receiver. Today’s talk will focus on receiver performance. What are you up against? Weak signals (CW or SSB or a digital mode) Atmospheric and man made noise (QRN) Interfering signals (QRM) Strong signals adjacent to your frequency Strong signals far removed in frequency Fast or slow fading (QSB) What are your weapons Key receiver performance factors Sensitivity (Weak signal reception) Selectivity (Bandwidth matched to signal, Ability to reject adjacent QRM) Optimum detector for desired signal modulation type Linearity (Spurious free dynamic range) Blocking dynamic range (From strong adjacent signals) Stability (Keep the signal in the pass band) What this talk will address Key Receiver Specifications What are they? Why each is important? How to read a QST product review. I will not address the pros and cons of specific receiver architectures. Receiver fundamentals What must a receiver do? Amplify a weak signal delivered to the receiver by the antenna. Filter out undesired interfering signals and noise . Detect the desired signal, extract its intelligence and present the content in a useful format. Receiver fundamentals What must a receiver not do? Add additional excess noise to the received signal (Degrade SNR) Generate additional spurious signals or mixer images which corrupt the detection process Drift off the desired signal frequency Simple super hetrodyne receiver dB’s and dBm’s Power ratio in dB = 10log(P2/P1) Gain in dB = 10log(Pout/Pin) 3 dB is a factor of 2, 6 dB is a factor of 4 10 dB is a factor of 10, 20 dB is a factor of