Lee,
That's possible. In a few weeks we'll gather up our equipment and head for the top of a local mountain where we'll have a much better shot at the PAVE PAWS site. Right now we're not completely sure we're really looking at PAVE PAWS. It may be that our data from old environmental impact statements is obsolete. We know something has changed or the Department of Defense wouldn't be clearing out all the local ham repeaters.
Juan - WA6HTP
-----Original Message----- From: Lee McLamb [mailto:ku4os@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 4:43 PM To: eagle@amsat.org; juan-rivera@sbcglobal.net Cc: 'Dave hartzell'; 'Robert McGwier'; 'David Smith'; 'Dave Black (Work)'; 'Dave Black (Home)'; 'Samsonoff@Mac. Com'; 'Juan.Rivera (Work)' Subject: Re: [eagle] Re: PAVE PAWS EMI
This reminds me of a briefing we got at work from a UHF receiver vendor regarding their receiver's susceptibility to radar. In it they demonstrated
how a strong enough RF pulse would actually cause a bias shift on the first stage resulting in a 'blanking effect' until the RF induced voltage decayed off. Perhaps we're seeing something similar here?
73, Lee-KU4OS
On Monday 03 September 2007 14:32:05 Juan Rivera wrote:
Dave,
The noise blanker is off and when you think about it, it doesn't matter anyway since I'm pulling the 10.7 MHz 3rd IF out of the TS-2000. The
noise
blanker is implemented in DSP farther downstream. I'm not sure what is causing that. I'll have to scratch my head some more...
Juan
-----Original Message----- From: Dave hartzell [mailto:hartzell@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:58 AM To: Robert McGwier Cc: juan-rivera@sbcglobal.net; David Smith; Dave Black (Work); Dave Black (Home); eagle@amsat.org; Samsonoff@Mac. Com; Juan.Rivera (Work) Subject: Re: [eagle] Re: PAVE PAWS EMI
Attached is a Matlab plot of Juan's SDR-IQ PAVE PAWS capture...
In the plot, you can really see the noise-blanker suppression after each spike...
Dave
On 9/3/07, Robert McGwier rwmcgwier@gmail.com wrote:
Juan Rivera wrote:
Hi Dave,
I noticed that too. I killed the AGC but didn't think of the noise
blanker.
I'll take a look and try again if it was on. Right now I can't
communicate
with the CAN-Do module or I would switch to the 70 cm prototype receiver
and
repeat the test.
Juan
Yes, please. I have some interesting noise blanker stuff I want to work on to eliminate PAVE PAWS pulses on board the SDX transponder. This is the PERFECT set of signal collection (SDR-IQ of IF) for doing that work.
Thank you very much once again Juan for your extremely valuable contributions and your unbridled enthusiasm. It is very welcome indeed.
Bob
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