Some tests with Mercury loaded with firmware V2.6

by I2PHD, February 12, 2009

PowerSDR has been just calibrated, using a Wandel&Goltermann PS-19 generator, old but very clean spectrally, set at 10 MHz,
 -70 dBm

The background level is at the same level where it is with no input signal

Now the level has been increased to -20 dBm. The backround noise has increased too by more than 30 dB at 30 kHz from the carrier. Probably the responsible is the generator, but I don't have an 8640B to check with
And this is an aural annoying glitch (a "tick") that visually shows as in the picture, taken by selecting a single frame from a video recording of the screen of the PowerSDR