[450] Awesome RF score!!!

[John Foege]

I don't think so.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM, <djmay at comcast.net> wrote:

> I believe medication is the proper course of action at this point.
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> *From: *"John Foege" <john.foege at gmail.com>
> *To: *"144.450 Mailing List" <450 at lists.vhfwiki.com>
> *Sent: *Friday, December 21, 2012 7:14:01 PM
> *Subject: *[450] Awesome RF score!!!
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> Check it out....
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> For 3 Euro per board (lots of really expensive, salvageable RF parts on
> here) this is the most insane RF deal I have ever found. Just the 4 ultra
> low noise microwave GaAs FETs on here would normally be very, very
> expensive on their own. You get 4 for 3 Euro....This price can NOT be
> beat....wow....
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> Check out the write up for the board and then the site to get your hands
> on them...I'll be ordering a bunch.
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> Merry RF Christmas!!
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> http://www.rfmicrowave.it/schede/pdf/00000004_01.pdf
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> http://www.rfmicrowave.it/eng/catalog_view_item/0/5/4.html
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> http://www.cel.com/pdf/datasheets/ne32584.pdf
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> And yes, it's 3 EUR and not 3000 - the comma is the way the Europeans
> delimit between dollars and cents....major major score!!
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> These are some of the highest gain lowest noise FETs ever - and not only
> that, but normally to get a really low noise figure you run FETs @ around
> 5mA or less. At these low bias currents, however, their IMD performance
> goes way down and they are more sensitive to overload from adjacent strong
> signals.
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> However this FET can achieve a near optimum low noise figure @ 70mA of
> bias....!!!! That is insane. I've never seen that before in all the
> datasheets I've looked at. That means that it will have a really high IP3
> (so really good at staying linear even with strong adjacent signals - no
> overload and no IMD).
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> You can get a sub 0.5 dB NF with these baddies with over 25 dB of gain and
> extremely good IMD performance. Quite possibly the best LNA ever...in fact,
> these microwave boards are just that - LNAs for 10 Ghz.
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> Score !!!
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