Questions tagged [measurement]

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Can the parallel capacitance of a quartz crystal be directly measured?

A quartz crystal is often represented by this equivalent schematic: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab How to measure quartz crystal motional parameters using a VNA? discusses measuring these parameters with a VNA, and there…
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How to properly measure sensitivity of the receiver?

I have Kenwood TH-D72 2m/70cm HT. According to the manufacturer the sensitivity is "Less than 0.18 uV". I would like to check this, since the radio is not new and I'm not it's first owner. To do this I decided to use the tracking generator of my…
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If i measure a rf source as 20 dBm in spectrum analyser inline with 20db attenuator, what is the actual power generated by rf sorce

Measurement 20dbm + 20 db attenuator, what is the actual power of rf source
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Sweep times for Spectrum Analyzer

I have a basic question about sweep times and number of points. My frequency span of interest is: $f_{span} = 30\ \rm MHz$ My resolution bandwidth is: $RBW = 10\ \rm kHz$ The minimum number of points is: $n = 2\frac{f_{span}}{RBW} = 6000\ \rm…