Re: [amsat-bb] 2.4 G beacon

[Bob Bruninga <bruninga@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 Mike73@aol.com wrote:
> 
> If you're looking to check out your S band receiver, here's a good way to 
> test it...  You will see a nifty little harmonic generator made out of a
> 10K resistor and 1SS85 diode....

WHile putting an LED on the roof to indicate that my preamp was powered
and ON, I wondered about what kind of broadband noise is genereated by a
forward biased LED less than 1 inch from the input circuit of my preamp.
As I remember it, a forwared biased diodes makes a good noise generator..?

Bob



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