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Old January 9th 06, 07:23 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
John Miles
 
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Default Compensating frequency response of wideband amplifiers

In article ,
says...
Could someone point me in the direction of how you might go about flattening
the frequency response of a wideband amplifier MMIC? I'm looking at something
like the Watkin-Johnson ECG003 (
http://www.wj.com/pdf/ECG003.pdf) and noticing
that the response drops a little over 2dB from 500MHz to 2.5GHz. Assuming
that I've got plenty of SNR, component count isn't a big deal, and I don't
mind tweaking trimmers, how might I go about flattening that respone to, say,
0.5dB or better across that range? Or is it just not very practical?

Thanks,
---Joel Kolstad





Why would you need specs like that? You don't ordinary rely on an
amplifier to provide that kind of flatness. You need a detector and a
PIN modulator in a closed loop.

-- jm

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