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G8MNY  > TECH     27.01.17 12:06l 77 Lines 3610 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: G8MNY@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EURO
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By G8MNY                                          (Updated Dec 04)
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Being involved with ham training, I have been doing all the techical demos
including AM & FM (Sigen), but I was ask to do a SIMPLE demo of SSB generation
which my siggen can't do. As I only have a wide 50kHz bandwidth filters in my
spectrum analyser scope adapter & wanted to show the sidebands etc, normal
comms SSB is out, so I came with this set up....

               ÚÄÄÄ>SCOPE AFÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
               ³                           ÚÄ>SCOPE DSB & AMÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿Y1  ³Y2
               ³                D1         ³          ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿    ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
               ³          ÚÄÄ´<ÃÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄ>oÄÁÄ68êÄo<ÄÄÄ´SPECTRUMÃÄ>X ³ SCOPE ³
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ u1    ³          ³      |)      o¿     Úo    ³ANALYSERÃÄ>Y ³DISPLAY³
³AF OSCÃÄ´ÃÄÂÄÄÁÄÄ4k7ÄÄÂÄÄ´   T1 |)ÄÄ¿   _³_   _³_    ³ ADAPTOR³    ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
³0 - 2V³   4k7        === ³      |)  ³  Ú---------¿   ³ 1-90MHz³
³100kHz³    ³        1n³  ÀÄÄ´>ÃÄÄÙ  ³  À---------Ù   ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ   0-5V  ÚÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄ¿   D2   ³    ³     ³
           DC    ³RF SIG GEN³        ÃÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄ
                 ³ 21.4MHz  ³       _³_   21.4 MHz
                 ³ ñ100kHz  ³       ///  XTAL FILTER
                 ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

I cheated with 100kHz for the Audio to solve the analyser display problem. I
initially built from junk on just 2 BNCs, but I soon boxed it up. Diodes D1 & 2
are any small silicon type, I did find proper mixer types better (more linear)
but could only handle low level, but my scope was happier with larger signals.

T1 is a medium sized ferrite bead 6mm dia with 2x 8 turns (bifil) wound on it
with the centre tap (opposite end of each wire) earthed.

The filter I had is a 7.5kHz wide one (narrower than the spectrum analyser
resolution) & it is totally unmatched, but works well with only a 68ê to
equalise the loss for filter bypass (DSB) mode.


SPECTRUM DISPLAYS

CARRIER ³             AM   ³              DSB ³   ³             SSB   ³
Y       ³                ³ ³ ³                ³   ³         (upper or)³
        ³                ³ ³ ³                ³   ³           (lower) ³
  ÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄ     ÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄ      ÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄ      ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄ X
                     | |             Mixer|/     \ Carrier
                  Over Mod         Distortion      Nul
                  Products

SCOPE DISPLAYS
                    /'\     /'\          /'\     /'\          /'\     /'\
AF-------------   AF   |   |   |       AF   |   |   |       AF   |   |   |
Y1                      \./     \./          \./     \./          \./     \./

                      _       _           _   _   _   _
RF°°°°°°°°°°°°°   RF/' `\._./' `\._    RF/ \./ \./ \./ \    RF°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
Y2°°°°°°°°°°°°°     \._./' '\._./'       \_/'\_/'\_/'\_/      °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
                                                |
                                            Crossover
                                             Nuls

AM can be displayed by off setting the balance of the mixer with DC.

I found the Scope display worked best with 1-10kHz AF & the Spectrum display
with 100kHz AF as this gave clear sideband signals (& distortion products in
course) & it was easy to select either upper of low sideband with ñ100kHz off
set of the RF signal generator.


See also my tech buls on "Spectrum Harmonic Demo circuit", "Scope RF Trick",
"Tuned Circuit Scope Demo" & "Oscilloscopes".


Why don't U send an interesting bul?

73 de John G8MNY @ GB7CIP


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