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Old March 9th 06, 03:57 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Harold E. Johnson
 
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Default Low distortion HF rcv preamp?

With the performance I'm looking for, it means
detecting distortion products down more than 100dB from the inputs, but
that's something I'm up for. I do need to work on a little better
combiner for my sources, though, so they don't intermodulate before
going into the D.U.T.. I can get fairly close to the sort of
performance I asked about with some modern op amps, but not across the
full HF band.

Cheers,
Tom


Hi Tom. Look for Anzac combiners, we used them to measure +55 dBm Ip3 on the
VMP-4 amplifiers and didn't get measureable IMD from them at +6 dBm in.

John Thorpe (AOR 7030 fame) assures us that the simple MCL PSC 2-1 is
blameless to 0 dBm.

http://www.aoruk.com/comments.htm

I had been having what appeared to be hybrid IMD using some Merrimac
combiners, which totally cleared up by using DDS sources instead of low
noise HP 8640's modified to remove the levelling crosstalk. The DDS's do NOT
talk to each other and less attenuation for isolation is required.

Gimmee a hint on your "modern" op-amps. Split PSU's I presume?

Regards
W4ZCB