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December 1st 07, 05:08 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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RFI: Another thought

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Many 10 to 20 year old solid state SWL receivers use discreet logic
ICs and suffer from insufficient bypassing.

I found that bypassing all of the ICs in the R2000 lowered the
internal noise floor by slightly over 4dB. I measured this degree of
improvement on 4 R2000s.

I used 0.001 across the DIPs and 0.001 with a 1uF tantalum across the
LSI chips. I also added 1uFs willy nilly on the +5V rail.

That is an indication of insufficient ground and power planes in the PCB
otherwise your capacitor additions would not have made a difference.

The radio must have lousy PCB design.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

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