The local oscillator is the core device in radar or communications system, phase noise indicator of which determines the performance of the transmitter and receiver. This paper analysed the characteristics of each of these methods by comparing the common measurement methods of phase noise. This paper Researched the measurement and processing methods of the counter in phase noise close to a carrier signal,the counter combined with high resolution and gapless measure especially. This method has a great value in locating and eliminate the noise source in high performance oscillator.