Robert brings up a very good point. It is the main difference between a $4 ERA monolithic amp from MiniCircuits and a packaged $1200 Miteq amp. While saying that, I think MiniCircuits is a great company with a range of products that are well characterized and worth every penny.
Regards, Brent DeWitt -----Original Message----- From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of Robert Macy Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 1:09 PM To: Ken Javor; rehel...@mmm.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: High Frequency Pre-amp Just a reminder....always make certain that no signal gets in to "saturate", or even start to overdrive, your amplifier at frequencies you're not looking at. - Robert - Robert A. Macy, PE m...@california.com 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 AJM International Electronics Consultants 619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 -----Original Message----- From: Ken Javor <ken.ja...@emccompliance.com> To: rehel...@mmm.com <rehel...@mmm.com>; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: Re: High Frequency Pre-amp > >MITEQ and Mini-Circuits come to mind for octave and multi-octave band amps. >HP (Agilent) makes the the 8348A covering 1 - 26.5 GHz around $14 K. The HP >model has a 10 dB noise figure and 25 dB gain below 20 GHz. With MITEQ you >can pick your noise figure and gain from a large variety of models. >Mini-Circuits is the low price leader, I saw amps up to 8 GHz but you would >need several models and the price will still likely be less than with the >others. If you are using an HP8566 or similar model which uses harmonic >mixing above 2 GHz then you need enough gain to push the signal above the >degraded noise floor. > >---------- >>From: rehel...@mmm.com >>To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org >>Subject: High Frequency Pre-amp >>Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 10:16 AM >> > >> >> This question may have recently posted but I'm not able to search the >> archives so I'll >> ask again. >> >> We have an immediate need for a pre-amp above 1000 MHz. Would you be so >> kind >> as to let me know what brands/models and frequency range you are using. Any >> pro/con >> insights would be welcome as well. Please contact me on or off-line. >> >> Thanks, >> Bob Heller >> 3M Product Safety, 76-1-01 >> St. Paul, MN 55107-1208 >> Tel: 651- 778-6336 >> Fax: 651-778-6252 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety >> Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. >> >> Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ >> >> To cancel your subscription, send mail to: >> majord...@ieee.org >> with the single line: >> unsubscribe emc-pstc >> >> For help, send mail to the list administrators: >> Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org >> Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net >> >> For policy questions, send mail to: >> Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org >> Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org >> >> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: >> No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old >> messages are imported into the new server. >> > ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
