Re: Re: K3 wih - PA3AKE High Pergormance Front End

[David Cutter]

I would like to consider this front end and the K3 as tunable IF, does that sound do-able?

David
G3UNA

> >
> Thanks Gian. It might be of interest to people in Europe who homebrew as
> well as buy rigs that contrary to popular wisdom and based on 'on air' use,
> the high IMDDR3 at 1 kHz spacing of Martein's front end and roofing filter
> is worth having when working SSB DX zero beat with or among the 40m BC
> stations. To date AM BC transmitter phase noise does not appear to be a
> limiting factor, their modulation can be sometimes.
>
> 73,
> Geoff
> GM4ESD
>
> Giancarlo Moda wrote on Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:16 PM
>
> > for those of you interested on high performance analog
> > front-end I have the pleasure to inform that Martein,
> > PA3AKE, has just updated his website.
> <snip>
>

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[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

David,

May I get back to you later this evening off-list with some thoughts about
this approach. An advantage gained by using a variable IF is that the
close-in phase noise of the first mixer's fixed frequency LO injection can
be very low indeed, but there are other disadvantages.

The gain of Martein's front end between the antenna port and roofing filter
input is negative, about -7 db depending on the band in use, since neither a
post mixer amp nor a preamp is used neither of which is desireable nor
necessary. This means that the IF's noise figure has to be low in the region
of 2 db.  Also the Input IP3 of the IF has to be +50dbm, or better if at all
possible, to take full advantage of this front end's performance.

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD


David Cutter G3UNA wrote on Monday, April 14, 2008 12:57 PM

>I would like to consider this front end and the K3 as tunable IF, does that
>sound do-able?
>
> David
> G3UNA

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