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Hello All
I am beginner in RF I may ask about some silly question and please pardon me May I know what actually the unit of dbm and db is different from one another? If they are different how can we minus the gain in unit of db from a IP3 in unit of dbm? Kindly enlighthen Thank you all rgds and thanks Jason |
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db is a generic term basically meaning: Decibel. A unit for measuring the
relative strength of a signal. Usually expressed as the logarithmic ratio of the strength of a transmitted signal to the strength of the original signal. A decibel is one tenth of a "bel". the key is that it is a ratio... without a reference a ratio is essentially meaningless. that is why you often hear that station a is 10db louder than station b... saying that station a was 10db wouldn't mean anything. dbm has a built in reference. by definition: Decibels referred to 1 milliwatt. so the reference is 1 mw. do you can say that the power of a source is 0dbm meaning that it is 1mw, 10dbm is 10mw, 20dbm is 100mw, -10dbm is .1mw, -20db is .01mw, etc. i don't know an ip3, but maybe that will give you a start to know what you are looking for. "jason" wrote in message ups.com... Hello All I am beginner in RF I may ask about some silly question and please pardon me May I know what actually the unit of dbm and db is different from one another? If they are different how can we minus the gain in unit of db from a IP3 in unit of dbm? Kindly enlighthen Thank you all rgds and thanks Jason |
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dB is a ratio for example dB = 10 log10 (P1/P2)
so increasing power from 100 watts to 200 watts is 3 dB (3.01dB actually) But so is increasing power from 10 watts to 20 watts = 3dB Since it is a ratio -- it is unitless dBm is referenced to one milliwatt thus is a discrete power level In the equation above P2 is always one milliwatt Thus increasing power from 1 milliwatt to 2 milliwatts is 3dBm From 1 milliwatt to 10 milliwatts is 10dBm etc Not sure of your reference to ip3 but suspect you mean input third order intercept point as used in amplifiers Google ip3 to get explanations of this and how it is measured. -- Caveat Lector (Reader Beware) "jason" wrote in message ups.com... Hello All I am beginner in RF I may ask about some silly question and please pardon me May I know what actually the unit of dbm and db is different from one another? If they are different how can we minus the gain in unit of db from a IP3 in unit of dbm? Kindly enlighthen Thank you all rgds and thanks Jason |
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"Caveat Lector" wrote
dB is a ratio for example dB = 10 log10 (P1/P2) ....snip... In the equation above P2 is always one milliwatt ___________________ To elaborate, P2 above must be 1 mW only if one wants to calculate dBm. The equation as it is written above will calculate the relationship in decibels between any two power values expressed in the same units. For example, to find the gain of an amplifier in decibels when its input power is 50 watts and its output power is 1.2 kW: dB = 10*log(1200/50) = 10*log(24) = 10*1.38 = 13.8 RF |
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Thanks for the clarification
I meant to say "For dbm In the equation above P2 is always one milliwatt" Thanks -- Caveat Lector (Reader Beware) "Richard Fry" wrote in message ... "Caveat Lector" wrote dB is a ratio for example dB = 10 log10 (P1/P2) ...snip... In the equation above P2 is always one milliwatt ___________________ To elaborate, P2 above must be 1 mW only if one wants to calculate dBm. The equation as it is written above will calculate the relationship in decibels between any two power values expressed in the same units. For example, to find the gain of an amplifier in decibels when its input power is 50 watts and its output power is 1.2 kW: dB = 10*log(1200/50) = 10*log(24) = 10*1.38 = 13.8 RF |
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jason wrote:
I may ask about some silly question and please pardon me May I know what actually the unit of dbm and db is different from one another? dBm is referenced to a milliwatt. dB is referenced to something else and that something else must be specified. dBd is referenced to a dipole. A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Cecil is CORRECT, also, other terms you might run into a
dB I = dB Isotropic (an immaginary point source that radiates in all directions uniformly) , used for antennas. dB W = dB, gain or loss , referenced to 1 Watt. dB is simply the logrithmic ratio of (POWER, Voltage) to the reference (-1 dB = a loss of 1/10 of your power, -3 dB , loss of 1/2 your power, and if positive, the opposite is true 1 dB = 10% power gain, 3 dB = twice the power, ect. as info, Jim NN7K Cecil Moore wrote: jason wrote: I may ask about some silly question and please pardon me May I know what actually the unit of dbm and db is different from one another? dBm is referenced to a milliwatt. dB is referenced to something else and that something else must be specified. dBd is referenced to a dipole. A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information. |
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:19:29 GMT, Jim - NN7K
wrote: Cecil is CORRECT A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information. Hi Jim, I must've missed something here with this dimensionless, referenceless declaration. I'm not even sure if there isn't an implicit negative sign to it. Would this be 100dB above ignorance? 100dB below genius? What is the zero reference for information? Valid information, and simply available information is not exchanged at the same rate (100dB above entropy?). It can't be zero information because that would cause the computation to be "undefined." Hmmm, maybe the baseline is the computation of no information. -No- That returns us to the conundrum of even what is 1dB above "undefined?" SWAG? In that regard: A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information re SWAG Can there be a ratio of 1 SWAG : 10¹º Facts? When I enter the universal measure of knowledge into Google, it only returns "19,400,000 for TITS." This is roughly 500 times below the declaration made above. Does it follow you must perform 500 SWAGs to successfully achieve your goal of TITS? This sounds almost about the same as the computation of probability for a teenage boy on a date running out of gas on a dark road - and yet historically this occurs far more often than chance. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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Richard Clark wrote:
Jim - NN7K wrote: Cecil is CORRECT A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information. Would this be 100dB above ignorance? 100dB below genius? 100 dB compared to the answers one gets on a newsgroup. :-) -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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It's just a continuation of humorous electrical loose-talk.
For example. no change to anything, such as moving all the gear around in the shack, is worthwhile unless it produces a "3dB Improvement" "Richard Clark" wrote in message ... On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:19:29 GMT, Jim - NN7K wrote: Cecil is CORRECT A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information. I must've missed something here with this dimensionless, referenceless declaration. I'm not even sure if there isn't an implicit negative sign to it. |
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