Quite by accident, in leafing through K9AY's new magazine I ran into a reference to a surface-mount PIN diode <http://www.skyworksinc.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=857> designed specifically for receive
Hi Pete, The lower limit on the operation of a PIN diode, is not arbitrary, it's set by the carrier lifetime of the diode. The carrier lifetime has to be longer than the half cycle time at the freque
It is called RF Technology International - primarily online. Got the citation from the latest ARRL Contest Update. 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststatio
See what the lastest rigs are using to switch front end bandpass filters. In the 80's my job involved using PIN's in RF modems as low as 5MHz. Considering their measured performance I modified my TS-
If anyone is interested in playing with some HF-rated PINs, I have a quantity of Microwave Associates MA-47266 available. They are 1.5 watt, axial leaded parts (about the size of a 1/4 watt resistor)