[sdiy] doh!

Ian Fritz ijfritz at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 23 22:47:06 CEST 2002


At 01:45 PM 10/23/2002, media.nai at rcn.com wrote:

>dBu is dB referenced such that .775V into 600 Ohm is 1 mW, and Decibels are
>logarithmic so
>
>dBu = 20 log (Vrms/0.7746) and
>
>Vrms = .707Vpk  (Vpk = Vp-p/2)

I don't believe this is quite correct. What you are describing is dBm, not 
dBu. Just remember that the "m" refers to a "m"illiwatt (into 600 Ohms).

   Ian



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