[time-nuts] Basic regenerative-divider questions

[Bruce Griffiths]

John Miles wrote:
>> Did you experience the start of oscillation also as you went from
>> +3 dBm to
>> +4 dBm? The impulse may be part of getting the oscillation running.
>>     
>
> No; nothing happens until the +4.8 dBm to +4.9 dBm transition.  There is no
> hysteresis at all; the output vanishes upon falling back to +4.8.  It's an
> interesting effect, to see such a pronounced on-off transition arising from
> a few basic linear components!
>
> -- john, KE5FX
>
>   
John

However the regenerative loop includes a mixer which itself is
inherently nonlinear.

Bruce