I've read an article by IK4AUY from QEX Mar/Apr 2003 about Front-End
(standalone). He used very nice push-pull preamplifire in it (to
compensate insertion loss) - but i wanted to be smarter ;-)
And the question should be:

"If **I have decided to use RF preamplifire** CAN I use MMIC or should I
use more "conventional" solution. ;-)

73
MAc
sp9mrn

OK, in that case, the answer is NO. They haven't made an MMIC with the
characteristics of IK4AUY's preamp. Not even in the same zip code as the
characteristics of his pre-amp.

W4ZCB