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 [email protected]
408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121
AJM International Electronics Consultants
619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Javor <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected]
<[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
>>To: [email protected]
>>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
>>
>>
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