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Old February 22nd 05, 04:58 PM
andreas magun
 
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Default pumping the T2-exciter board with a squarewave signal

Hi,

I have assembled a T2 phasing exciter (KK7B) and looked
at its output spectrum with a spectrum analyzer.

When pumping the exciter with quadrature sine wave signals it
works as expected (output power roughly 3 mW, sideband supression
better than 40 db).

However, when pumping with quadrature squarewave
signals of approximately the same power, the output power
drops by a factor of at least 20 db! I would have expected
much more power, similar to that obtained with sine wave pumping.

The quadrature phase signal was generated with a 74F74, the
quadrature signals being attenuated to give a power of approx. 10 dbm
and output impedances of approx. 50 Ohms.

There must be an explanation.

Thanks
Andreas