John Smith wrote:
Dave wrote:

...
I gave you two versions of the same preceison amp, in answer to your
example of a mediocre amp. If the leads are too close together get
the unit in a case, with 50 Ohms in and out.

Telemon is right though, the original thread was about HF, and the 3
term device that the other guys referenced, or even the 3 term device
Ten-Tec used 8 years ago, are superior to your little 40 mW MMIC.

I think the device I gave is easily available and cheap, large enough to
easily solder, etc., and not only that, but it would more than
suffice--I'd say that was nothing short of excellent, acceptable noise
figure also. Me thinks you look for a problem to satisfy more than
actual needs and fitness for duty--your ego possibly?

I just don't see Ghz capabilities being a problem, so why you would
think only requiring HF capabilities from it is any sort of a problem.
Indeed, with switchable filters in front of it, you could use it to scan
for wifi points ...

I suppose I could spend anything I wanted, a $1.25 per unit sounds good
to me ...

Regards,
JS

I deal with multiple carriers in the passband and I have to see an IP3
at least in the upper 30s.