[time-nuts] Frequency standards for different tau in Allen Dev measurement

Bob kb8tq kb8tq at n1k.org
Fri Feb 21 21:27:25 UTC 2020


Hi

With phase data on ADEV, you are pretty much always *under-sampling* the data.
As you go to longer tau’s you do not do any bandwidth fiddling. The sample rate
drops and drops, but the bandwidth stays the same. 

Bob

> On Feb 21, 2020, at 4:04 PM, Chris Caudle via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, February 21, 2020 2:27 pm, Bob kb8tq via time-nuts wrote:
>> Which is why downsample is probably a better term since it does not
>> involve fiddling bandwidth.
> 
> I would expect that you would still have to meet Shannon-Nyquist criteria
> and low-pass filter before reducing the sampling rate.
> I don't have a firm grasp on the mathematics of how this translates into
> the final ADEV values, but I can't imagine that aliases are going to
> improve the quality of the data.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Caudle
> 
> 
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