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I work in a screening lab and have these 1:1 xmission line xformers:
http://www.futureelectronics.com/wir.../ETC1-1-13.pdf I need to measure their insertion loss, per spec to 3 GHz. But I've never used one before and am not sure how to connect it. I connected it as shown in this tutorial: http://www.bytemark.com/products/tlttheory.htm using an HP8753D in CW mode as a source and an HP power meter across the outputs as RL. Does that seems ok? I'm not sure about using the power meter across the output. Should I load one output and connect the power meter to the other, then measure insertion loss? Then switch load an p.m. and I would check amplitude balance also? My problem is after "cal'ing out" my fixture, I get a bad dip in the insertion loss around 2GHz, like there's parallel C across the 'inductor' and it's resonating and opening up. I made a short fixture on regular copper clad with 1/8inch wide traces for 50 ohm, short runs anyway, with SMAs in and out. Using the HP8753 in CW and a power meter, I took reference readings it with copper foil across where the DUT would be, then put in a DUT and took readings. |
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