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Justin Crooks
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llevitt,
I’ve never tried this, but here are my initial thoughts. It seems to me that if you mapped your noise source’s ENR from RF to IF frequencies, then mapped the result back to RF frequencies, it might just work. It probably requires that image responses are sufficiently filtered, and that gain + ENR is in a reasonable range (15-35 dB?) to reduce the effect of the analyzer’s noise floor and compression.
