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Spurious
Purpose of measurements—what they prove
Spurious measurements are necessary in all radio communications systems, and
in GSM they are extensive. For correct operation GSM transmitters must not
put energy into the wrong parts of the spectrum. If they do, other users of the
GSM system may experience interference and worse still, other users of the
radio spectrum (for example, police, television, commercial radio, military and
navigation) will experience degraded, or even jammed links.
Almost any fault in the transmitter circuits can manifest itself as spurious of one
kind or another.
The spurious measurements discussed in this section are those defined as
“conducted.” These specifications apply when the test instrumentation is
connected directly to the device under test antennae connector. The ETSI and
ANSI standards also defined a large number of measurements for “radiated”
spurious. These are not covered in this note.
For the purposes of clarity, in terms of representing the specifications, this
section is broken down as follows:
Tx and Rx band spurious Spurious that affect the system of interest.
Cross-band spurious Spurious that affect other GSM systems
operating at different frequencies
(GSM900 into DCS1800).
Out-of-band spurious Wideband spurious that affects other users
of the radio spectrum.
All of the spurious measurements are defined in ETSI and ANSI specifications
as standard spectrum analyzer measurements, that is, a band is swept (with
certain filter/speed settings) and a pass/fail limit applied.
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