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- PRO34.1
-
- From: parnass@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
- Subject: Eliminating a birdie in the PRO-34 portable scanner
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
- PRO-34 BIRDIE ELIMINATED
-
- by Bob Parnass, AJ9S
-
- Birdies are unwanted signals generated within a receiver,
- which cause the receiver to "hear itself." Some birdies
- are caused by the unwanted product of the local oscilla-
- tor. Another cause is a stage, which oscillates but
- isn't meant to oscillate, such as a high gain intermedi-
- ate frequency (IF) amplifier.
-
- Most birdies, especially those generated by a local
- oscillator, are frequency stable. It's difficult to rid
- a radio of these birdies, and solutions usually involve
- better internal shielding and isolation among the stages.
-
- A "wandering birdie" is one which changes frequency.
- Wandering birdies, and birdies which appear and disappear
- suddenly, may be caused by intermittent ground connec-
- tions within the radio, or defective bypass capacitors.
-
- CONTINUED IN FILE PRO34.8