thanks a lot for these explanations.

matis

Le 27/03/2018 à 11:52, Derek Kozel a écrit :
> Hi Matis,
>
> The USRPs are generally designed following the rule of thumb that the 
> passband is 80% of
> sampling rate. That allows for filters, both analog and digital, to be 
> reasonable to
> construct. The TwinRX is tuning its analog center frequency to 50 MHz. With 
> the 100 MS/s
> complex sample rate frequencies from DC to 100 MHz are visible, but the 
> filters,
> amplifiers, and other elements of the receiver will degrade the receive 
> performance
> below 10 MHz. As you've found though, the degradation is very acceptable for 
> some
> applications.
>
> Marcus actually authored an app note looking at the same question with the UBX
> daughterboard.
> https://kb.ettus.com/Experiments_with_the_UBX_Daughterboard_in_the_HF_Band
>
> Regards,
> Derek
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:15 AM, Matis Alun via USRP-users 
> <usrp-users@lists.ettus.com
> <mailto:usrp-users@lists.ettus.com>> wrote:
>
>     yes, its seems that we loose several dBs but which can be widely 
> compensated by the
>     extremely large TwinRx gain range.
>
>
>     Le 24/03/2018 à 06:38, Marcus D. Leech via USRP-users a écrit :
>     > On 03/24/2018 12:41 AM, Matis Alun via USRP-users wrote:
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> The TwinRx frequency specifications is from 10MHz to 6GHz.
>     >>
>     >> However, some tests shows that I can select the center frequency 
> around 10 MHz with a
>     >> sampling frequency of 25MHz
>     >> which allows to make some acquisitions in the HF band (3-30 MHz) with 
> a very good
>     quality.
>     >>
>     >> My question is: why the specs limits to 10 MHz ? Is the RF part have 
> degraded
>     performances
>     >> under this frequency ?
>     >>
>     >> Below this question is: we have to deliver a big HF (3-30 MHz) system 
> to a
>     customer. The
>     >> acquisition part is actually built with
>     >> 2 x N210 with LFRX daughter boards. Due to the lack of chain gain of 
> this
>     configuration,
>     >> we add some RF pre-amplifiers
>     >> in order to have good RF levels at the LFRX input.
>     >> Maybe that this configuration can be replaced by 1x X300 + TwinRx (we 
> didn't make
>     this
>     >> choice because of the TwinRx specs) ?
>     >>
>     >> Regards,
>     >>
>     >> matis
>     >>
>     >>
>     > My guess is that signals below 10MHz can be received, but the RF 
> amplifiers in the
>     > low-band portion of the TwinRx likely fall off in gain quite a bit
>     >   below 10MHz.
>     >
>     >
>     >
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