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phase noise analyzer and phase noise measurement
drew23:
Hi all.
I am new to phase noise measurement but bought a PN2060A to try it. Awesome device.
I have made a blog post about it.
I was in contact with Yanjun today. He is currently on summer holiday. However, he did say he has some of the PN2060A for US$480, two of the PN2060B for US$780 and is working on PN2060C/D. To quote, "Currently I am focused on the development of PN2060C/D. Hopefully, It can be finished within 1-1.5 months. For PN2060C/D, one is with 2 ADC chips, and the other one is with 4 ADC chips."
Regards Drew VK4ZXI
http://vk4zxi.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-economical-way-to-measure-phase.html
glenenglish:
Hi Drew
After my 3048 died. I have built my own PNA from FPGA bits and boards I have lying around (I do that for a living) , it worked OK , I just fed raw samples to python and that did the rest.
However , compared to my mass of bits and leads, the PN2060 is just too easy and compact so I just bought one.
Apparently this is PCB Rev 1.1 so we'll see how it goes.
glen
alan.bain:
I'd be intrested to hear what you used for the front end given the AD DC1525A-A eval board used by Andy Holme is hard to find now (the FPGA part is more straightforward to substitute). I've got a rather non-standard 3048 setup (HP3563A as DSA not 3561) which works well, although at times the DSA is painfully slow. At times I would be interested in a direct digital comparison option!
hpw:
--- Quote from: drew23 on August 02, 2023, 07:24:00 am ---I am new to phase noise measurement but bought a PN2060A to try it. Awesome device.
working on PN2060C/D. To quote, "Currently I am focused on the development of PN2060C/D. Hopefully, It can be finished within 1-1.5 months. For PN2060C/D, one is with 2 ADC chips, and the other one is with 4 ADC chips."
--- End quote ---
As PN2060C with now V1.1 PCB.
What I am missing:
- the additional HW parts as required to start with a simple measurement, So to organize as DIY :palm: At the end of this parts, measurement & validation could start but not before.
- The USB 3 connections are not isolated and draw high currents. No battery solution (galvanic isolation) seen so far.
- the real given required SW parts as still DIY and SW maintenance is unknown ??
- this means, this looks IMHO not a ready to go solution.
or I am wrong?
Hp
sky2city:
Hi all,
Does someone tested phase noise on 800MHz directly by PN2060C?
I want to by one, but I don’t know how the performance on 800MHz. How much it will be about performance degrade.
Thank a lot.
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