Measuring a VCO at 3 a.m.
On patience, on cables, on the particular solitude of a phase-noise sweep that will not converge.
Measuring a VCO at 3 a.m.
Forthcoming.
Field notes from a long night with a phase-noise analyzer. On the kind of patience the lab demands when the sweep will not converge and the only remaining variables are cable, temperature, and you.