ear Dotter, It sounds like you have an impedance mis-match and you are observing the standing wave ratio. Regards, Paul Levin Xyratex _________________ dotter wrote: > Hi, > I've been making return loss measurements of balun coupled ADC input > using spectrum analyser with tracking gen and a return loss bridge. > > The return loss shows a regular "oscillation" of amplitude vs frequency > of about 10dB with an extremely regular period of 100MHz across a > bandwidth of about 1GHz. > > Is this an artifact? It seems extremely stable and unrelated to any > clocks in the circuit. > Any ideas what would cause this? > > Apologies if this is too far OT! > > Dotter > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.net > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu