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Hi gang,

And old chum of mine suffers badly from pager interference when he's
trying to listen on the 2m band. The interference is strong to him
(S9+) and takes out all his reception, despite the fact that it's quite
a way up-band at 153Mhz.
I've been looking into designing a filter for him to cut off by 153Mhz
to better than -20db but it turns out to be rather more tricky than I'd
imagined. Even with a seven element butterworth configuration, the
difference between the 146Mhz (wanted) and the 153Mhz (unwanted is an
insignificant 6db or so. I'm just not getting enough roll-off and need
something much sharper. Worse still, the roll-off I'm seeing is on a
computer simulation of the filter with ideal components and would no
doubt be even worse with real-world Ls and Cs. Any suggestions as to
how to tackle the problem, guys?
Thanks,
P.

A coax stub filter to notch out the pager would probably work better. It's
cheap to make, but it also has some drawbacks - signals within roughly +/-
10 MHz of the notch may have as much as 10 dB of attenuation. Your friend
may be able to cope with some attenuation better than 100% overload.

-NM