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Old 10-05-2013, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by zenith2134 View Post
Intriguing premise, to convert the digital information to analog and view the resulting pattern/scope curves taken from the IF strip.:
One more thing: without an excellent de-ghost/amplitude and phase correct,
you will never see the actual digital waveform. Even with a perfect
signal, no ghosts, arriving at the antenna, phase errors alone
in the antenna will render the waveform useless. You can't look at
the waveform (QAM) from cable either as channels are all filled in and
without DSP there is no way to get a perfect frequency separation
with no phase errors.

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