Zack, Sorry, I forgot to mention. I'm a newcomer to VHF/UHF...and a filmmaker by profession. Can you put that into English and run it by me again? "Noise matched"? Matched to what exactly? Signed, Sl
Hi Les, Well, to simplify it, what you want from your preamp is the optimized noise figure. This represents the lowest value for noise figure you can achieve at a given frequency or small range of fr
I once had access to a 3GHz Network Analyzer after the engineering staff went home. With the help of an RF engineer, we set it up to measure my homebrew MRF966 preamps for 2m and 432. We found that m
I have had pretty good luck designing amps using the gamma(optimum) [noise match] figure when it is provided by the manufacturer along with the s-parameters. I'm usually pretty close when doing it th