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Old October 14th 06, 03:25 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Joel Kolstad Joel Kolstad is offline
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Default effect of cascading LNAs

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I am asking because it seems difficult, and maybe impossible. I've
never heard of this high gain before, but I dont' know why I cann't
stack amplifiers and I am looking for somebody who can tell me what
exactly the problem is: you see the NF is nice, and I can get the SNR
if the band is narrow enough.


The problem is that, if you have 140dB gain at one frequency, you need *over
140dB isolation* from your final output back to the original input to
prevent oscillations from occurring.

140dB isolation is very difficult for reasonable amounts of money!