FM frequency test.

Jul 22, 2006 2 Replies

Hi All,



I have some FM frequency test questions, could you please advice?


  1. SNR, should I get the definition of SNR first? or we do have general SNR definition for FM ? In my experiance, I will calculate as this:

Major tone power - the most high noise power between BW.


  1. Frequency variation:

A: When FM TX power on, but no music is loaded, compare to when music is loaded. B: When FM TX power on, compare RDS transmitting data and no data.



I am not quite understand the RDS operation, seems a second FM TX near major tone...?


  1. I saw the major tone (FM freq,ex: 100MHz ), when music is loaded, the whole frequency variation is very big, almost become a triangle ( originally is a single tone ), is that correct?




Thank you very much!



Best regards, Boki.



Signal to Noise Ration is defined as the difference between the carrier and the noise floor, measured in dB. There are also some variations of the SNR as:

- Spurious Free Dynamic Range which is the lowest difference between the carrier and the adjacent subcarriers or images

- the phase noise( dBc) which is measured at a standardised distance (

1Khz, 10KHz, 100Khz or 1Mhz) from the carrier and it caracteristic to the oscilation source

That's depends on the resolution and bandwidth you've set on your spectrum analyzer.

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