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biff44 said:a free running vco will have a lot of frequency jumping, and it will be hard to make a measurement. I would go with a delay line discriminator type phase noise measurement system, and try to loosely couple into the VCO and reamplify with a decent RF amplifier. You want to loosely couple, because if you load down the VCO in a way that the circuit does not usually work, you can change the phase noise.
If you are talking about a phase locked vco, it will be a little easier to measure.