Thread: Noise Threshold
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Old 24-Jan-2016, 2:02 AM   #7
rabbit73
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Here are two Noise Margin diagrams of an indoor antenna without preamp. They are two versions of the same setup. Version 1 is the way Andy shows it with the minimum required SNR added to the thermal noise floor and then the tuner NF is added to that. Version 2 adds the tuner NF to the thermal noise floor and then the minimum required SNR is added to that, showing what goes on between NM 0/-91 dBm and the thermal noise floor at -106 dBm. Note that a signal stronger than NM 0 dB, namely NM +6 dB in this case, is needed at the input of the tuner to offset the 6 dB NF of the tuner.





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