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Looking at the spectrum displayed on the spectrum analyzer, the fundamental will generally be the left-most vertical spike above 0Hz. However, to qualify as the fundamental, this tone must have a specific harmonic relationship to the other components of the sampled signal.

The relationship is that every upper tone in the signal should be an integer-multiple of the frequency of the fundamental. Thus, if you find three spikes, one at 200Hz, one at 300Hz and one at 400Hz, the 200Hz tone is not the fundamental. That would be a tone at 100Hz, and the signal you are looking at has a 'suppressed fundamental'.

Likewise, if the signal described above also had a spike at 50Hz, this _could_ be the fundamental, where the second harmonic (at 100Hz), third harmonic (at 150Hz) fifth harmonic (at 250Hz) and all harmonics above the sixth are being suppressed.

An additional worthy test is to turn off the signal and look at the spectrum. If there are signal components displayed that don't relate to the sample, they would show up after the signal is removed. (I.e., do an analysis of silence, and anything that shows up needs to be subtracted or discounted from the signal spectrum.)

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