Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Active Radar Hardware

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 00:04, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> But also realize that in addition to preventing physical damage to the
> receiver, you also need to deal with "desense" (as we old repeater
> builders call it) that results when the RX front end is subjected to a
> strong input.  It takes a finite amount of time for the front end
> operating conditions to return to normal after being exposed to a big
> signal, so that may impact your turn-around time.

If the Rx boards support it you could turn off the LO during transmition, that 
can improve recovery time.

(Although this is all second hand knowledge at VHF :)

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