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Why is oscillator phase noise important in a receiver?

  • A.It spreads strong nearby signals into the passband
  • B.It reduces the conversion gain available from the first mixer
  • C.It shifts the intermediate frequency away from the filter centre
  • D.It increases the local oscillator power the mixer requires to switch

Answer: A

Phase noise on the oscillator mixes strong adjacent signals into the intermediate frequency passband, so a noisy oscillator undoes the filter's selectivity. That is why a synthesiser's phase noise is specified as carefully as its stability. Conversion gain and injection level are drive matters. And a mean frequency shift is drift rather than phase noise. A receiver's selectivity is only as good as the cleanliness of the signal it converts with.

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