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John Galt6
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AirView Spectrum Analyzer Anomaly

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jcremin See Profile asked a question in another thread that wasn't answered, and I thought it warranted a separate discussion as I see the same thing on my LocoM5s.

I checked the UBNT forums but nothing was found.

Does anyone else see this anomaly shown above on their units? It looks like the artifact repeats itself with some regularity up and down the band from the marked location.

Inssomniak
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The seemingly impossible sharp increase in signal ? Yea Seen that a lot.

WHT
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AirView often has unexplainable anomalies that don't show up on the MetaGeek spectrum analyzer.

John Galt6
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I've noticed that the 'defect' does not seem to manifest itself in the dongle version.
bburley
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I have no way of knowing the inner details for certain, but it looks like the band is broken into segments about 17 or 18 MHz wide. Switching circuits for each segment would change the RF tuning to optimize RX sensitivity and TX amplifiers for each segment.

The sharp increase in segment 3 (2434 - 2452) looks like a "DC Offset" which artificially raises the baseline. A true DC Offset wouldn't have noise appearing below the raised portion, but that would be like saying they haven't engineered their defects properly.
SipSizzurp
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I suspect that it is not Airview, but the whole radio. In my initial testing of a 3 mile nanobridge link a few years ago I tried compliance mode for testing, and found a 12 dB link improvement in frequencies at around 5.8 Ghz and below. Like bburley suggests, I strongly suspect that the front end gain on these sub $100 radios is not all that uniform across the entire band.